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VOL. I. \
JULY, 1886, TO JUNE, 1887. ^.

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Oldham Express Office.
Makchesteb : B. H. Sutton. London : Henry Gray.

1887,

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PUBLIC Llir.ARY

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ASTCP, Lrts^QX AND
TlL'i^N F«UWDATIONS
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ILLUSTRATIONS.

Oldham in 1831. Face TtUe Page.

Oldham Grammar School in 1890 •••• • 9

Middleton Grammar School • •• •• 65

St. John's, Hey 71

Holy Trinity Chorob, Wat6rh«ftd 105

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An Oldham Infant 37

Afikton Parish Church 78

Bine Coat School, Oldham 146, 152, 166

Books Relating to Oldham 61

Bullbait, Lydgate 80

Butterworths, Tho Works of the ... 204, 229, 234

Chantries, Middleton Church 141, 142

Chapelry of Oldham Temp. Commonwealth.. 241

Church Goods in Oldham, 1652 191

Churches in Oldham • 84

Churchwardens' Accounts, St. Mary's 1

Crompton Local Names 156

Constables' Accounts, 1697 to 1698 5, 21

Dean Rev. Richard 73

Dog Whipper 8, 31, 189

English Mummies 131

Etymologies in Township of Oldham. . 91, 100, 103
Etymologies in Crompton 156

Freehold Land Movement in Oldham 49

Glass Window Tax 38

Grammar School, Middleton ... .63, 69, 82, 87, 141

Grammar School, Oldham 9, 24

Grammar School, Original Trustees of 14

Hedgehog, The 8

HeyChapel 71

HeyWakes 78

Histories of Oldham 35, 62, 59, 61

History of Parish Church Registers • • . . 25

Hollinwood School 170, 175

Holy Trinity Church, Shaw 112, 122

Holy Trinity Charch, Waterhead

195, 199, 224, 237, 250
Holy Trinity Cburcb, Waterhead, Some Beminis-

cences of ••«..• .••..•...• 210

Horten Monnments • 40

House Duty, Oldham, 1779 190

Incumbents of Saddleworth 107, 153 '

Jubilee Year, 180910 10,222

KilnCroft 14

KnyvettMrs, of Shaw 264

Letter of Lord Strange 244

Levy For The Navy.. 189

Lydgate Wakes 78

Masters of Middleton Grammar School ...... 88

Marriages At Manchester Collegiate Church,

1681tol739 ..•• 33

Manchester Mummy 126'

Middleton Grammar School. ... 63, 69, 82, 87, 141

Mummies, English • 131

Mummy, The Manchester • • 126

Nan O' Dingle's Clog and Thunderbolt ...... 86

Navy, Levy For The 189

Newspapers, Oldham ••..*• • 40, 194

Oldham Blue Coat School 146, 152, 166

Oldham Chapelry Temp. Commonwealth .... 241

Oldham Church, Goods in 1552 191

Oldham Church, Opening of, 1830 99

Oldham Church, Registers of

32, 36, 50, 59, 74, 95, 111, 117, 136,
145, 168, 176, 186, 202, 226, 228, 245, 253

Oldham Grammar School • 9, 24

Oldham, Histories of ^ 35, 52, 59

Oldham Parochial Chapel 4

Oldham House Duty, 1779 190

Oldham, Newspapers <40, 194

Oldham Sunday Schools 87

Oldham Rural Deanery,. Churches in 71

Hey 71

Holy Trinity, Shaw 112,122

Holy Trinity, Waterhead.. 195, 199, 224, 237, 250

St. Paul's, Royton 179

Opening of Oldham Church, 1830 99

Origin of Window Tax, or Laye 21

Re|;istcrB, History of Parish Church 25

Hoytoo Church, St. Paurs 179

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Saddleworth Church....: 40,45

Saddleworth, Incumbento of • • • • 107, 133

St Anne's, Lydgate 79

St George's, Mossley 79

St George's, Cattle Hill 79

St Paul's, Royton 179

Schofield, of Whitefield 140

School, HoUinwood 170,175

Seats in Saddleworth Church 81

Shaw Chanel •• 112,122

Some Reminiscences of Holy Trinity Chnrob,

Waterhead 210

Stone Coffin, Oldham Church 99

Strange, Letter of Lord •. 244

Sunday Schools, Oldham ^.» 87

Surveyor's Accounts, 1765 •• 54

Taybrs, of Booth Hall, The 160

Tonge Family, of Tonge 137

Wakes, LeesCum-Hey • 78

Wakes, I^dgato ,. 78

Window Laye, 1730 17

Window Laye or Tax, Origin of 21,38

Vll.

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS.

Andrew, Samuel
Aykroyd, John
Bailey, John C.
Booth, W.

Cachemaille, Alfred J. J.
Editor, O. E.
Godson, J.
H. T.

Hand, T. W.
Hay, W. R.
Hey wood, G. R.
Hotspur.
Howard, G. R.
Hig8on, John
HoUinhead, J.
Mackie, W.
Philander.
Radcliffe, John
Shaw, G.
S. H. D. T.
Sutton, C. W.
Tonge, Aaheton W.
T. H. VV.
W. B.
Wentworth, Philip

Locql ]S[otes ^
Ql0qi|ir|gs.

I^AttttbAS, 3nls Bljitt, 1886.

NOTES.

[1.] The Chubchwabdens* Accounts.

lliis document, a copy of which we print here^

nnder, is the first.of a series of extracts from the

Oldham parish records, which have been made

through the kindness of the present vicar, the Rev.

A. J. J. CachemaiUe. A thoughtful study of it will

enable our readers to form a graphic picture of

Oldham and its manners and customs 160 years*

ago, and at the same time to form an idea of the

nature and magnitude of the changes which have

taken place. Many items indicate the relative

value of money and of the necessaries of life in those

days as compared with ours. Brief and interesting

oomment on these articles, or on matters relating

to them, is invited.

ThA aooonnis of James Wilde, (Jeorire Booth, Thomas-
Tetlow, and James Baokl^, Churchwardens of Oldham*
1734:— £ 8. d.

Pd to the Bingeni, their wages 03 10 00

James Mellor, Dogg Whipper 00 13 00

Phil Bocldej, for a Cote Cloth 00 12 08

Trimming for the same 00 06 02)

Taylor's makeing the Ootee 00 04 06 0106 04^

Benjam Whitehead, BillBread 00 03 04

Hr. Hopwood, BiU for Wine 06 03 06

Ba. Jaekson, Sextan's Bill 01 06 07

2 Notes akd Gleakinos;

Thomu Kleld, Clark's Bill 02 OB (B

John Whitehead, Olaiien 00 01 08

Mr. Beddons BUI for Wood for Biera. 00 00 06

Thomae Davenport's Bell Stepps 00 09 08

Dan'll Cleggs Bell 00 18 04

John Walwork, a Day Woricand Bowler 00 08 06

Pofor takeltt^Qp BeU 00 0i:O0

Thomas Lighbowu. for a set of BellBopes 00.16 <02

John Lees, Cleaning Clock, kk, 00 06 00

Timot. Lees' BlU 00 15 06

Wm. Tajler's Bills , 00 06 lOi

Titus Bardsleyt for Stone for Chnroh*

yard Walls 01 15 06

Isaiah Duncall, Leading Stones 00 06 09

Jas. Henthom, Walling 00 19 09

John Bioadbent,6herpening Picks 00 00 11

08 02 11

Doctor Nioholls on the Common Prayer 01 06 00

IMdeanx Churohwardens, 4o. 00 01 06

Cannons k Constitutions : 00 02 00

This Paper Book 00 03 06

Albin Brearley, Poynnting, Ac 00 03 01

Joseph Tayler, Slater 00 01 02

▲ Straw 2£at tor Churchwardens' Seat DO 00 04

DisbuTMd ^ £25 06 02

Eqoal Charges.

Pd The Dean BnraU at 3 Visitations 00 10 00

Pd with the Coppy of the Bogester. DO 00 04

Expenses at the 3 Visitations 00 12 00

Hireing the Bmgers 00 04 08

Spt on them at severall tunes 00 03 00

Beceiyittg the old accounts 00 06 00

Viewing the Church seyen times. 00 06 00

l^OY 5 Deer 25 Easter Sunday and Monday 00 16 00

Twice nukkeing presentments 00 06 00

Laying the Ley and writeing presentments 00 06 OO

Paying the Bills and Passing these Accounts ... 00 06 00

£08 19 04

The accounts of James Wilde, Churchwarden for the
Township of OMharn, 1734^

Seed by one assessment 12 02 09)

Buryalls in the Church 00 08 04

May 9th, 1736.

Pd SamU. Milne.— late Churchwarden— what he

was out of Pocket 01 05 OOf

Disbursed by one-third of 26 06 02 00 09 04)

,» one ffourth of 08 19 04..... 00 19 10

A petition by Burning by "Wile 1 00 02 00

Oldham and NsiGHiBonwooD. 3

£ 1. d.

■'▲ Moond by Mr. Towiuon's notes 00 01 06

U Hedge Hoggg 00 01 08

Wid Lees Smiths Leys not Seed. 00 06

£10 19 lU

Oldham Senmins. J)l 06 Oa

June 6th, 1736.— Now pd to Mark Kield, present

Churchwarden.
The aoooonts of George Qooth, Churchwarden
for the Township of Bvton, 1734.

Beod in one assessment 06 06 01^

BwTsUs in the Church 00 01 06

Beod OOOTOO i^

Dishnrsed to Jont. Ogden, Late Chnrohwaiden... 00 13 06i

By one sixth part of 86 06 03 ^ 04 04 8i

By one ffourth part of 03 19 04 00 19 10

A Petition for a Loss by fire 00 02 00

A Seoond Petition ^ 00 01 03

6 Hedge Hog^.... 00 00 10

Disbursed 06 01 OIJ

Byton, 6s. 711. remains ,00,06^1

June 6. 1735, pd to James Butterworth, present

Churchwarden.
The Aooonnts of Tbos. Totlow, Churchwarden
for the Townshipp of Chaderton, 1734.

Becvd. by one aesessment 10 01 U

Buryalls in the Church 02 06

Beod ...: 1 04 06

Dubursed to JohnSchoIes, Churchwarden, 1730 ,• 05 08^

„ John Crossley, 1731 0111

,. George Bcholes, 1733 ,,0101

By one ffonrth part of 29U. 17s. 6d. 07 09 04}

A petition for a Loss by ffice 03 00

A Seoond 02 00

8 Hedge hoggs ^ 01 04

811. 3s. SH. Disbursed 06 08 06

CkadertonBemains 03 01

The accounts of James Buckley, <!!hnrchwarden for
the Township of Crompton, 1734. lb. s. d.

BecTd. in one assessment 13 08 10

Buiyalls in the Chureh 00 08 06

BMSrd. 12 C6 04

Notes and Glbaninos.

£ s. d.
Diabuned to James Cooker, Late Churchirarden

hy one-ffonrth pt. of 29 17 6 '.. 07 09 04|

19 Hedge floggee „ 03 02

Disbursed 07 12 08|

Crompton Bemains for Shaw Chapel 04 12 9]

These whole aoets. seem & allow'd by us—
8. Townson, Cort'e.
James Hopwood, George Travis, James MeUor,
John Scholes, George Scholes, mark neild, James
Butterworth, Samuel Smethurst, miles Greave.

G. SHAW.

Note by the Editor. — It seems necessary at the
outset, with as much brevity as possible, to give a
brief outline of the history of the Parish Church of
Oldham, and of the town itself, matters which will
frequently recur as these notices appear. James
Butterworth, the local historian, says: — *'The
parish of Oldham is, properly speaking, a parochial
chax>elry, subject in some degree to Prestwich, but
enjoys all the privileges of a parish." In 1817, the
year Butterworth wrote^ the boundaries of the parish
were — on the south, Manchester and Ashton-under-
Lyne; on the east, Ashton and Saddleworth ; on the
north, Bochdale and Middleton; on the west,
Middleton and Prestwich. Within this boundary
there were about 30,000 inhabitants. The Oldham
Parochial Chapel (or church) is said to have been
built by Sir Ralph Langley, of Edge-croft,
warden of Manchester, and curate of Prestwich,
about 1476, Edward IV. ; but there is evidence of
a prior structure on the same site. A map is given
in Butterworth's history, representing the town as
it appeared in 1756 — a date 22 years later than the
date of the above accounts.

QUERIES.

[2.] What is the occupation of a Dogg Wliipper ?

[3.] The item, " A petition by burning by wife
00 02 00," is curious. Did the wife bum a petition,
and why, and what was the petition ?

[4.] The items, « 11 Hedge Hoggs 00 01 08," and
** 5 Hedge Hoggs 00 00 10," and *' 19 Hedge Hoggs

Oldham and Neighbourhood. 5

00 03 02 " seem to convey the idea that the church-
wardens rewarded destroyers of hedgehogs, which,
according to a superstition which still obtains, suck
the milk from the teats of kine both in field and
shippon. Is there any other explanation ?

jhinxias, ^ugttji(t 7% 1886.

NOTES.
[5.] The Constable's Accounts.
These following are the Accounts of John Twee-
dale, of Connthill, Constable for the Township
of Oldham, in the County of Lancaster, fifrom

October, 1697, UntiU October, 1698.

£ 8. d.

Beod in one Assesnueiit 4 16 11

Beod from tiiA Old Constables 10

fieodinall 6 6 11

Disbursed as ffollowetb.

Goeing to the Leet Court when first Rwora 6

To Bochdale and Middletonffonr private Sessions 2

Charges Abonte Mary Marlor Meat Drink fteo ... 1 2

A Secnnd Leet Court at Salford '0 6

Given Ifiye passengers and goeing to Byton 8

A passenger to Crompton 1

Bemoring A woman into Asshton parish 6

to two passenger 1

tiiree passengers to the Castle shaw 6'

A passenger and Horse to Hartehead 6

A Laye for poor prisoners at Lancaster Castle. . 1 9}

A Bridge Laye 6 5 llj

flor A Wfr't for overseers of Highwayes 2 0'

Another Wrr't for Mary Marlor 2

Another Brigde Laye O42. 8^

ifor three Laye books for Constables and Hather-

shaw , 2 0.

Another Bridge Laye..., .> a.... ■... 115

Another Bridge Laye 3 6)

Another Bridge Laye ^ -. 6 2

goeingtopay ALayetoBochdale 6

Forohm't p'esentm'ts for Assizes and goeing 10

ifor p'sentJn'tiB imd ooppying wurants ^ .0 1/2

The Second Quarterly poll uid ffirst books ..' 1

Spent at Layeing Hat'hershaw Lone Laye 19

given A Soldier....'. ,.: 'O 1

To the Leet Court at Goeing out of Office 6

ifo^writeingthesdp'^htm'U.' .....;....;.*...;...*;.:..;; B 6

• • «

Notes and Glkanings*

£ ■• d.

8pMitattia7diigtheCk>]i*tableiiIii^ 2

flor Lodgtiiif fkmitk pMMiig«n f roa Saturday

night tm Monday tnoaming 6 6

to SaTefall paMengara to Atah t o n aa4 Chadacton

and Cairiaga of them 10

Cany two ChUdran into Hartahaad m.....».. 6

A Hone into Byton 6

Another tyae my Hone into Crompion 6

Spent in goMng with ptiTBte watoh 16

InaUDiibnned 4 3 0}

Bemainatobepaide 1 3 K^

Dinllowed for Garryimr A Woman to Anhton
and writeing paper preaentmmta and Coppying
two Orden or Warranta 18

at LaitBemaina 1 S Bj

BeerlBt.

Allowed hyna

Will t Langl^ t Abnham Taylor : Joieph Clegg :

John Tetlow : Bdmnnd Newton : Joeq^h Jonea :

Jamea Brearleyi

Jno. X Thorpe'^

mark •< Conatablea

Jonathan Leeae J

Deer 1st 1G86.

Jno> Thorpe and Jonat: Leeae Beod. from Jno.

Ogden and Jno. Tweedale 1 9 8|

And. paide out of the Said Some 5

at Lan remainea for either of them to Aeeonnt
forthe same of 13

Theie .ffpllowing are the Accounts of John Ogden

of ffog lane Constable in the town of Oldham in

the County of Lancasste' ffrom October 1607

Untm October 1608

£ a. d.

Beod in one asaeaament 4 12 4

Seed from the Oid Conatablea. 10

BeeeirediuaU 5 2 4

Diaboned aaffclloweth.

Goeing fco Setiiona when fint Sworn 6

to Timothie ibranklattd his wife and ffonre

children , ^ 8

Wm. Peak and fifteen moce 6

to James Z«owe his wife and two diildren 7

ALayelorBeliefeof prisonen atLanoaater 1 d|

goeiiig to pay it at Maaohsater 6

Oldham akd Kxiohboubhood. 7

£ ■• d.

to TlKKBMi Battler Us wife uid too Childitii S

Bobert Gforo hto Wil« fflTS Childrtii and four

XennKno 16

THquim wmmU and tlmt more 10

toJa.EIUsnid John ffleatOMid Six mors... 10

to Jno. Hartley Ids Wife and fTonr Children 10

to EoU. Bameden Ja. Leeae and three Children 8
to^no.Gluidwiokfor Lodgeinffonepasienger ..006

to Sam'll Hyde and James Holdworth and wiTes 9

Bridireliaye for Bury and Blaekweith 6 11^

forgoeingwithittolfanehester 6

trm Almon his wife and three Children 10

JskSazson his wife and four Children 8

goeing to A Seoond Ssesions 6

Henrf Jonson and ffoor persons more 8

Tbom. Kay and four more and two Children

Lodged 2

Sam'll Holte two men and two women 9

Jon Booking his wife and two men more 7

Geo Leach ffoore men two wiTos and one obilde... Oil

Chr. Holmes his wife and two -passengers 6

Oliver Hnat his wife and three more 6

petef Hei^ and two more 4

to Dan'U Milne for his man to carry A passenger 3

to Han whittaker for Lodgeing A passeniter o 8

ffor p'sentments in Faveihment 6

A Laye for Bridges and poor prisoners 13 8i

Qoeingtopayit ...^... 6

toJno.WalkerApaassnger 2

to Law. Jackson for Bepairing hntts and dungeon

Flattug. •••* 13

Goaing with three men to AsshtoBi and giTsn them 16

toDan'UTompooaaadtwomore 6

A Laye for Woolley Bridge 115

gosingwithittoBory 6

to Dorothy Grimson and her son 6

to James ffwmiian and three more 11

to James Shaw and ffonr more 10

Anot^AridgeLaye 6 2

geeii«withittoBiiry 6.

goeing with Ibessors of Land Tax and Spences 10

Tha» Tboipe and two mote 3

gesftag with Sessors of PoU and Spent 11

Joahna Lane and three more 8

ALayeforOoTemourofHonse of Correction,^ 6 4^

goeing to Bory to pay it 6

HefctyWhtttalier for Lodgetog A passenger — . 8
Henry WUtlaker for Lodging three Men and two

WMon 3 4

for writeing the poll Lay Books twice OTer......... 10

for A new paireof Stocks 8 1|

for writelBg these AooQvnts '. 6

giTtBtothrseposs«ig«s. ^...... 3

8 Notes and Gleanings.

£ 8. cL
tgoing to October Sepaioiui 96 .0 , 6

InaUDiBbnned 4 19

BemainM to be Paide 3 4

DinUow'd at Qponoes at Land Tax and polL 11

at Last Bemaines... 4. 3

Pec lat Allowd by nz

Will Langley : Abraham Taylor : Joeeph Clepcg John

Tetlow : Edmund Newton Joseph Jones Jainea Brearly

T Jno Thorpe 1
mark f Constables

Jonathan Leese J

G. SHAW.

COMMENTS AND ANSWERS.

Dog Whipper.

(No. 2.)

[6.] I remember, when a yonth in Bedford, of

which town I. am a native, an old farm labourer re-

•ceiving fees for whipping dogs out of the church. From

what I have heard the country. people say, it was

not unusual for the shepherd's dogs to follow

their master to the house of prayer. I think it

is very probable that in a place like St. Mary's

Oiurchyard dogs might become a nuisance during

the time of • divine service, and might need

whipping off. It is also certain that there was a

-very general fear of mad dogs in the days' of , our

grandfathers, who, when out on long journeys,

carried cudgels to beat them off. However, I give

these suggestions for what they are worth.

J.S.

The office of dog-whippe.r fornierly existed in many
large churches, Oldham being amongst the number.
It was the duty of this officer to keep all dogs from
entering so sacred a place as a church. The last
.survivor of his order was connected with the .
Exeter Cathedral, and on his death tbe office was
abolished. T» W. Hand.

The Hedgehog. '

(No. 4.) ' ""

[7.] Your queriest is/ no doubjb, right in his sur^

^nise. Hedgehogs were not only regarded as

t T

Oldham and Nkighbourhood. 9*

filehen of milk from the teato of the oowb when

lyfaig in the pastares chewing their cad, ,bat also

thieves of frait and of milk in the pantry; Their

deatmction was conndered a benefit to the farmerSy

and these entries in tlie churchwarden's acoonnts

are proof that in 1734 the parish orchapelryof

Oldham was a great farming district. Yonrcorres-'

pondent will find references to these village snpef

stitions about hedgehogs in the ManchesUr City

iir«i0« of July 26. There is also in the same journal

of hist week an account of gipsies cooking and eat-

infr hedgehogs, whose flesh is said to be exceedingly

deUcious. Apropos of this subject^ I may mention

that a similar payment was made for deiad sparrows

of one farthing each, and thridehalfpence for a

sparrow's nest. I have always associated with this

custom the text which says, " Are not two sparrows

sold for a farthing ?'' Whether I am rieht or Mrrong

in this last case I have at hand no means of

knowing.

John Atkbotd, Werneth*

jSatttrtag, 3i.ttSttrt 14tl), 1886,

NOTES.
[8.] OiJ>HAM Gramhab School.

It may be that many of the particulars with re-
gard to the Oldham Grammar School which I ain
about to give have appeared before in the local
papers, but, speaking for myself, I have not seen
them thus published, and this is my apology for
reproducing the information. In making investi-
gations into other matters, I lateljr came across a
report of the commissioners for inquiry concemin^^
charities, who were engaged in their labojirs about
the year 1826, and who give a lengthy account of
the Oldham (Grammar School. This account con-
tains some interesting particulars of this charitable ,
foundation, and I, therefore, subjoin this portion .
of the commissioners* report : —

By indenture bearing date 15th May, 1606, James
Ashton, Esquire, of Ohadderton, for the education

10 "^ . Nans ahd GLKAtaNoa.

of x.j#iitli# granted Mid oonfinned t» Ismmm
CiMMltitoii Mid niiM otben, their Mn* ftaw, half Mi
aoM ol land in Ihe tovaship of 01d)»m» of th*^
gr^t MMiorethen iiaed» ahaWift g «n a moadoir ha
tha loamipatioii of Bdmnid Taylor in the eaafe, a
m^Mlow in tha holdings of Adam Jadtaoii in th*-
80Q|b» a gardan In the holding oi Biobard Winter*
bottom in the north, and a parcel of a field, called-
Ki^ Croft, in the weat, whioh aaid half -aore wa»
tallfln loa tniflt» that saidtraafteea^ fto«, ahooldno^
only anffer a oonTonlent . aohool booae to . be erected '
thereon, for teaching of childm the Knfi^iah, Latin^
and (ireek tonguM, and inatmetiag them in gooA
maonera; but alto ahoald ooovert the niage and
profit ot the laid half-aere towardatbe oommodi^, <
mainteaanoe, or eaae of the aaid intended acbool ef
th^ip»aterorteaohere therein to theirbeatdiaeretioii»
for^^emore, at the yearly rent of 2d», if demanded ;
and on tmat that when aU the traateoa except fonr
shall be dead, the aarviriMni, from time to. time^
ahoald' oon^ey .the aaid kalf^acre, and whateyer
ahoald be erected thereon, to ten otiier men of the
township of Oldham and their heirs, aa they, being
aMisted with the adyloe of each of the meat sab-
stantial hoaseholders as would be pleased to give
their advice therein, shoold think Qt on the before-
mentioned trust. By deed ^ bearing date ITtb
May, 1606, as appeara by an old ccqpr 'thereof; pro-
da<ap4 tie ua, the aaid James .Aahtottt granted aaid
LauTiippe Chaderton and othera, their heirs, ikc,»
an :an;Qual rent of 40s.* to be iMuing oat of »
mei^nage and tenement in Oldham, la the ooon*
pat|(M| of Roger Taylor, upon trast, that he and
tiie^^fttstees for the time being of the said school
abojitvto be built.in (Hdham, ahovld pay the aaid
yearly rent to the maater of that achooL The laat
appafiinlment of tiustees of the school premises wn»
made by indentare of ^ease and release bearing.
aat«,22od and 23rd September, 1812, whereby the
Rt.r,Hon.. Asaheton,. Lord Caraon, Joaeph Bad- ■
olif^.aud, John Iieea conveyed the said half -acre,
of land, with the schoolhonse erected thereon, and
8al4.jkn9uity of 40a., to Robert Hopwood, Jamea
Lees, Joaeph Leee, Abraham Ciegg, John Taylor

Oldham and Nbiohboubhood. 11

Cl^gg, Aiiahatim Clq{g» Sdw»id Le«» ThomM
Barkery Joha Ldm* and JoMph Jcom, the jwutgj&t,
and tbeis htin, to the «m of all the parties
tbcieto and tbtir heint iipan the above-men*
tieqed tnut Of theae tnuteee, Robert Hopwood.
Jaa^ Leea« Joaeph Leea^ Aaehirton Clegg» Edwerd
Leee» Thomaa Barker* John Lees, and Joaeph
Jonea are stiU living.

Thomaa Nnttell, by hia will bearing date 14t^
Haioh, 172^ gave to Benjamin OvQgg, Sam. Row*
bottom, Benjamin Dawaon, and John Starkie, and
to the owners <^ hiacapital meaanrge cdUed Hon-
ed|{e, in Oldham, and their heir% a yeariy rent of
£3» to be iaauing oat of a mearoage and tenement in -
the pariah of Oldham called Bogrda, over and above
another yearly rent of 40a. , payable to the Oldham
Scfaoolt anbjeot to which he had porchaaed that
tenement of Sanrael Thorpe; with a power of dla-
treai in oaae of non-pajrment of the nid rent of
£3, for the teaching of eight poor children Inha-
biting in the town of Oldham and Holebottom to
read English in the said achool^ as the said true*
tees, or the major part of them, ahonld appofait^
and lor bnying books for the said diildren onto!
the anrploa, if there should be any ; «nd h^
directed that whenever the aaid tmateea ahoidd
be lednced to two or fewer the aurvivor or aar«
vivora ahodid nominate other tntsteea so as te
matte np the number of five or more, the heir
for the time being of his messlmg^ at Horaedge
always to be elected one ; and he also charged
the said tsnement with another rent charge of £5
per annnm, for teaching poor children at Tot*
tington ; and the freehold and inheritance of the
Mdd mesanaga nnd tenement called Roydl, chargad
with said charities, he devised to his grrnki*
Slighter, Margaret Bagahaw, and her heirs. It
^oes net appear that any renewal of the truste ea
of this rent charge has ever taken place, but the
o#nsK of Horaedge Hall for the time being haa
iMen eonaidered a tmstee. The prsaent owner
ttisreel is Robert Radcliffi, Ssq.

in a aohedttle of doonments relating to thii>
aeheol b menlioned **A copy of George Sdholse'

12 Notes and Gleanings.

' ■ • . . - ••

will, dated Auflrust 13th, 1686, giving thereby 29b.

aniroally for the repair of. Oldham School ;" bat
this copy was iiot amongst the documents produced '
to ns, and we were nnable to obtain any farther
information relating i to the annuity. The Rev.
W.. Winter; th^ present taaiter of Oldham School;
states- that he' cannot find aay trace oi its having-
«ver been received.

The school property derived from the deed of
May 15th, 1606, consisted of a schoolroom and
about half an acre of land, on which houses and
other building have been erected, the site thereof
having been granted for that purpose by various
eases and conveyanceis from the- trustees, either ;
for iVBry long terms of years or in fee, subject to.
reserved rents. There is also a house at the-
western comer of the laud, which was formerly'
occupied 'by the schoolmaster for the time being,
butis let by the present master to a yearly tenant;
but) on the other hand, it is to ,be observed that
the-hsblf-aclte of land; if not appropriated to build-
ings w»ald at this time, from its situation, pro-^
duoe little, if any, income. The school was re>
paired' by subscription about the time when the
last ti!^8t de^d was made. The repairs of it which '
arc'obcasionally required are done at the expense
of the schoolmaster, who is -appointed the trustee,**
and receives the above-mentioned rents. The an'-
nuity of Ads. given ^by Ja;mes Ashton, the founder, •'
and that of £3 added by the will of Mr. Nuttall,-
are also paid to him by the :agent of llobert Rad-
cliffe, Esq., in respect of the lands dharjB:ed there^
with. The- 8cho61master, in consideration of the
emelutnents derived 'froiifi A'shtoh's donation, -in-
structs m 'grainmar- and the classils all thdsdus
of the itthAbitafilis of Oldham who' are sent to the-
school' free* of eit'penses but a charge is made for ■
teachins; them' English j writing, 'and arithme^c.^
There were at the time bt * our investigation 14'
schol&ts'of this^descr^llioh. l^n consideratfon- of
thei ahnuity giveA i>y Mr. Nuttall's will, six-
children of «' poor people 'of Oldhahi, appointed by
Mr. Enoch Duhkerley. the -land ietgent of Mr. Had-
clifie, are taught by the schoolmaster's- assistant -'

Oldham and Neiohboitkhood^

EDglifth reading, Koif if tbey renwinattheaoliool
long enough, writing and arithmetic, fr^e of -Bz-
penae.

The folbwing rental will show the present state
of the trust property : — , .

Date.

Grantees.

Qaanti

ties of

Land.

Gth Oct.,
1763.

••

3 Gth May,
1754

4
6

9^
10

lit
12

80t]) May,
1757.

»t

7th Dec.,

1780.
19th Oct.,

1787.

Ist May,

179^.

»>

»•

Bey. Saml. Town-
flOB, now widow
Boyle.

Thomas Ogden Kay ,
now Bobt. Kay ...

John and Abraham
^^i^SStnow execcui
tors of John Clc^

Thomas Kay, now
Walter Botxbson.

A small plot of huid
adjoining the
above, and in the
occupation o f
Wallis Bobinson,
of which no lease
is known to exist*

JohnMarler

Square
Yards.

280

James Bowland,
now Joseph Brad'
bury

John Lees, now
Jesse Ainsworth.

Abraham Clegg,
now his eaeoutors
John Bowbottom...

John Lees

843.
41

Term.

150
100

2188

A small
plot of
land.

A housed

In fee
Bo.

Do.

r '

Do.

999
3000

999

30CO

Do.

Yearly
Tenant

Bent.

£ s. d»

10
1 1. a

13 0*
•3*S>

5 T
5iO

119. »

012 &
1

10 18.

8 8

* The counter part of the lease on which the rent of
£1 is reserred was not produced. The lease is supposed
to haTe been granted about the same time aathat of Mo. 1.
t A lease of this plot appears to haye been granted, in.
1776, by BeT. Thomas Fawoett, schoolmaster, for so long a-
time as he should continue master, to John Turner, at ^e*
yearly rent of 6b. t Formerly occupied by the sohooU
master, in fair repair. The repairs are paid for by the
8')hoolmaster.

The trustees of this school do not appear to have had
any authority to grant the lands in fee or for terms equiva-
lent to a peraetuity, and it is considered by some of the
inhabitants of Oldham disadvantageous to the charity that
the s^ool, the neighbourhood of which is inhabited by
persons of a low description, should have been so much en-
closed by buildings.

It must surely be interesting to Oldhamers to
read of a time when the very heart and centra of
the town was meadow land, in the respective occu-
pation and holding of Edmund Taylor and Adank

14 NoTBS AND Gleanings*

Jftckfon. I tuppote where T. M. Little^e and
ethef ihotM stand wat a" garden held by Richard
Winterbottom* and where the Syntax and other
building! itand was a field called Kiln Croft. It
will be Men that the original deed for the Grammar
School was dated 1606. James Batterworth sa^ys
that "The school was built in 1611, by James
Assheton and others, and had formerly a spacfons
porch for the bojrs to shelter and refresh themselves
in during- the hours of relaxation. Over this
porch was a chamber serving as a residence for the
person who cleaned the school, and in front of it
was a -shield out in stone, on which were eight
ooata quartered— viz : 1, Argent, a mullet, sable, for
Asheton; 2, a bend engrailed, sable, for Bad-
difie ; 2, a cross, potent, tor Chadderton ; 4,
arsrent, three lions rampant, purpure, for Talbot ;
5, sable, f retty argent, for Harrington ; of Wool-

fage ; 6, three lions, passant gnardant, for ; 7»

on a bend, three muUete, for ; 8, a lion, ram-
pant, for — — .'' a Why the building of the school
was delayed for five years I do not understandy
and I am inclined to think there is a mistake some-
where, especially as I find it stated on good
authority that, about the year 1607, Francis Wort-
ley (afterwards Sir Francis) was attending Old-
ham Grammar School with Sir George Radcliflfey
under the Rev. Mr. Hunte (Radcliffe's Letters, p. 19).
l^otwithstanding this, the inscription on the doorhead
is I. A., 1611. The namcH of the original' trustees,
according to James Butterworth, are as follow : —
Laurence Chadderton, master of Emmanuel
College, Cambridge; Sir John Byrom (Byron),
knight; Edward Standish ; William Radcliffe, of
Foxdenton, Esq. ; Richard Assheton, of Oldham ;
Richard Tetlow, of the Chamber ; John Cudworth;
Thomas Crompton ; Edmund Taylor, the elder ;
and Edmund Tetlow, gent. Bishop Gastrell, in
the earlier part of last century, speaking of Old-
ham, says : — " Here is a school built by Mr. James
Assheton, in 1606, endowed with £2 per annum
out of an estate in Oldham called Rhodes, and lOs.
rent of a croft ; 20f . per annum was left by George

a Hist.0kl]iam,pa4.

Oldham and NsioHBonxHooD: .15

Sehoki, of Cbaddertoiit yaoouui, ior lypfciriBg jre
school, oat of oertain Iftodi lying ift Ccomf top,
calUd Shawaide acd DoghUL" It will ba a^n
that tbia bit of inlormatioii might .hava done
some good to the coinmia«iooei;s in 1826. ▲ fe-
pr^aentative of thia Soholaa family ia now, I be-
Heve, a meaaenger at the Oldham WorfchoiMe.
Sic ttxittsU glwia ! The Biahop alao aaya that
*' the master ia nominated by the Feoffeea,'* and
the *Vwritinga are in ye Church Chiat* in ye
cl^uiGeL" h . . I

^ Since the writing of the foregoing 1 have .been
laToured with the loan of a email tract, entitlad
*\An Acoonnt of the PubUo Charitiea of the
Parochial Chapehry of Ojidham, by the late Ednin
Bntterworth," printed by John flirat, in 1856. . I
4^pear to have gleaned my information f rpm the
aame field aa the author, but my acoonnt ia rather
more in detail. E, Butterworth adds, inUt aUa^
that " The founder atipulated that before.the half-
acre should be conveyed for the purpose named
there should be a school built on the said land be-
fore the feast of St Michael the Archanitel in 1600.
The school appears to have been built by the con-
tributions of the inhabitanto, in 1611." The fal-
lowing note also appeara, evidently not made by £2.
Butterworth, who died in 1848 :— *<0n the death
of the master (the Rev. William Winter, of St.
Peter's. Oldham), which occurred July 10th, 1898,
the school waa conducted by 3lr. Bankier, whowaa
Mr. Winter's assistant. He was succeeded by^^r.
John Andrew, who waa teacher in the school till
December, 1855, when he reeigned, and Mr. John
Newton waa appointed to aupply hia plaoev" The
Mr. John. Andrew, I am told, ia the late po«t-
maater of Oldham.

In order to open out Pe^<^treet the CorporatMm
of Oldham, on December 29th, 1869, purchaaed the
property of the QnMuaaa School for £1,010,
which ia inveated in oonaula, which, with aocumv-
lated interest, amounts at the present time to
£1,500. This, with accumulated ground rente of
£17 IQi. per year, auppodikg them to becapitaliaed«
b Ck$t 8oe Vot. C^tk,, vol. zU., p. 116.

16 NOTBS AKD GUSANINOS.

makes the estate worth about £2,000 to-day, which

amount, with a little assistaooe, woald boild a new

grammar school ; and surely the tmstees of Hnlm^'s

Charity would endow it, and thns save Oldham

parents the risk and anxiety of sendmg their

children every day by rail to Manchester Grammar

School. I may add that ** John Walker, by his

will, dated 7th July, 1755, gave to four trusteea

£500, to lay ont the mterest yearly for the benefit

of poor children residing in Ashton-under-Lyne,

Oldham, and Saddleworth, in buying booki, and

causing poor children to be taught to read and say

the catechism of the Church of England." This

amount appears to have grown to £051 Os. lOd. a

short time previous to the year 1826. It would

appear that £4 a year came to Oldham for the

master of a school to teach nine children to read.

As this amount does not appear in the schedule be-

longinflT to the Grammar School, I should be glad

if anyone could inform me whether it came to the

Grammar School master or to some other school

in the town, and which. In the year 1816 it would

appear the Grammar School was pretty well

attended, judging from the list of names hung in

the newsroom of the Oldham Lyceum. I am told

the old building is now used (save the mark) as a

bakehouse, and I suppose all that will remain in

a few years as a relic of the old Grammar School

will be % not very learned rhyme which Oldham

schoolbojrs always used to say when playing in the

rain. It went somehow as follows : —

It rains o' pains o'th heterodox,

Oldham sdholaTS are washing their smocks.

The latter line, I suppose, referring to the

- gowns which Grammar Scheol boys were probably

obliged to wear. The grim allusion in the former

line I must leave to the interpretation of the

charitable. Philander.

COMMENTS AND ANSWERS.

Dogo-Whipfeb.
(No. X)
[9.] A paragraph giving some interesting paiti-

Oldham and Nekjhbourhood. 17

cularsof the office and duties of adogg;whipper will
be found in <jurrent number of ** The Anti-
quary," p. 63. W. Mackie.

Stockdale. — Annals of Cartmel, p. 295 :
April Ist, 1782.
Paid Edwd. Johnson, dog-whipper,

sallary and for whip, 2d 5 2>

G, S.

^atttrtag, ^ugtt^t 21jst, 1886.

NOTES

[10.] Window Lay*e in Oldham, 1730.
This following is an Assessment in Oldham Town
on House Windows for the year 1730, Assessed
this first day of June in the Year above by us,

James N£\vton.
Sam'll Milne.

Windows 11 8-

Capt. Gregg Chamber 30 110

Wemeth 9 8

Mr. Lyon 19 6

Mr. Percival : Part 9 2

Horsedge House Fopers

Coldhtirst 2 Houses Each 9 4

Mr.Barlowa 17 6

BentHaU 19 ...•• 6

Pryors House 9 2

Joseph Jones 13 6

JohnTetlow 9 2

Mr. Badolyffe 16 6

Widow Piatt 14 6

Simon Parldngton 9 2

Kenities House , 9 2

Abraham Taylor 9 2

James Lees 9 2

Peter Cooper : 7 ..! 2

PeterWalker 9 2

Jas. Walker 9 2

Balph Wolf flnden 9 2

Mr. Buckley 17 6

Widow Pawlet 9 2

BobertTherp 9 2

Mr. EUdebottom Empty

JohnOgden 9 2

Mr. Thos.Bent 19 8

Jarris Lawton 13 ft

18 Notes and Gleanings.

Windows n 8

John Hadfield 17

Widow Garliok 9

Mrs Whitehead 19

Mr, Harrop house 14

John Buckley 15

JohnLees 9

Joseph Jones house Empty

Titos Somaster 9

BobertHarlor 9

Thos. Bho— s house 9

ICr. Buckley Cioughs Empty

Oeoripe Taylor 9

<}eorge Hardman 9

<3apt Gregg Wilds Empty

Widow NeUds 9

Richard Ashton 7

John Whitehead IS

Widow Whitehead a Cotts«e

Samll Taylor 17

Bobert Buckley 7

Tetlow Fold 17

Balph MeUor 8

Widow Whitehead 9

John Wallwork 9

Ui. Halls : PriesthlU 9

MarkNeild 17

William Wrigley 9

John Jackson 9

Mr. Hall : Doctor 9

Jonathan Wolstencroft 9

Isaac Oartside 19

Thomas Whittaker 9

Abraham Clegg 12

James Ward 9

John Chadwick 19

Mr. Dawson 19

John Broadbent 9

Jno. Chadwick innior 9

James Schoals 17

Theophilus Ogden 19

Jas. Broadbent a Cottage

Mr.Hulton's 19

Mr. HalleweU 18

Widow Lees 9

Fhinehas Chadwick 9

Edward Barlow 9

Bichard Chadwick 18

John Hardy 9

Bobert Kay 17

Mr. Pawlet 16

Danll Brierley 9

Daniel Heywood 9

Samll Schoals 19

^ 6

• •• 4

• ••«

..... 2

.Oldham and Neighbourhood! 19

Windows 11 s

JobnWhitfcaker.... 8 2

Edmd VIToUeocrof t poor

Edmd Wolgeuliulme 8 2

Nathan Barlow 2*

Jonathan Mellor 9 2

JameH Derf nport 9 2

William Hall 9 2

Philip Hyde : house 9 2

Mr. Hopwood 19 6

£ 8.

Below je town is , 15 14

William Beswick 11 6

Wiuterbof-toms 9 2

John Lees 9 2

WfldHouse 7 2

JohnSohoaU 9 2

Jacob Ogden 9 2

TheophiluB Ogden : popers

Jamed Gartside 9 2

Edmund Widall 9 2

John Mellor 9 2

Richard Millne 9 2

Daniel Hellor 9 2

James Winterbottom 9 2

Balph Potter 8 2

Samll Mellor : 9 2

Joseph Bnrj 9 2

Itomll Milne 9 2

BobertLees 9 2

JohnWiddall 9 2

DanU Lees : Pitt bank ^... 8 2

Edmd Mellor : Dirtker 19 6

James Kershaw 9 2

Balph Kershaw 17 6

Jas. Hilton&c 9 2

Widow Crompton 7 8

Seiij: Bjrom 9 2

Daniel Hilton 9 2

Ji^earor Barrowshaw 9 2

Farther Barrowshaw 9 2

James Ogden 9 2

James Bucklej 8 2

John Wolfenden 19 6

Jas. Buckley, widow 8 /.. 2

Mr. Kershaw house 19 6

Isaac Bardsley 9 2

John Mellor 8 2

Cocker : Oocupent 9 2

Samuel Lees 14 6

Beesome hill hey house 9 2

Dunkerley : Cle^gs 19 6

Jno. Buckley: Sholrer 9 2

20 Notes and Gleanings.

Windows ' II s

Jolrn Whittaker 9 2

Little End house g 2

Haven House 9 2

Widow Cloggs 9 2

JoTin Tweedall 8 2

Widow Wood 7 2

Arthur Halt 9 2

James Laos 9 c 2

Thomas Bromley 9 2

Bichd Waring 9 2

Widow Skott 8 2

Kobe rt Holts 9 2

John Booths 17 6

Widow Ogden : House 9 2

Thomas Chadwick 9 2:

Widow Bardsley. 9 2

James Bardf" ley 8 2'

George Taylor 9 2

BobertMayal 9 2.

James Taylor 8 2

Ciarks field I8 6

James Lees Empty

James Wylds Popers

New Earth House 9 2

James Marlor 9 2

JonahAndrew g 2

John Andrews 8 2

Isaac Taylor 8 2

Jno. Taylor g 2

Jonathan Warin g 2

Widow Heywood 17 6-

Adam Ogden 14 6

Mr. Dawson 17 6

George Clough 16 R

James Brierley g 2

SamllScholes g 2

James Clegg 8 2

Thomas Heap 8 2

Thomas Mashall g 2

Joseph Heap 9 2

James Newton Empty

George Chadderton 8 2

James Lees Quaker 7 2

Joseph Ahodes 8 2

.Tas. Bardsley

JacobOgden g 2

Joseph Bardsley : Banck 9 2

aboreyaTown 10 IB

BilowyeTown 15 14

InaU £26 12

We think John Lees, of HoUinwood, and

Oldham akd Neighbourhood. 21

Francis Clegg, of Paulden, proper persons for col-
lectors for the ensuing year.

June 4th, 1730. / 8. Hallow's,
Allowed by us, I Wm. Legh.

G. SHAW.

THE ORIGIN OF THE WINDOW LAYE OR

TAX.

*' It was a maxim I'eceived among financiers that
no security which the Government could offer was
so good as the old hearth money had been. That
tax, odious as it was to the great majority of those
who paid it, was remembered with regret at the
Treasury and in the City. It occurred to the
Chancellor of the Exchequer that it might be
possible to devise an impost on houses, which
might be not less productive nor less certain than
the hearth money, but which might press less
heavily on the poor, and might be collected by a
less vexatious orocess. The number of hearths in
a house could not be ascertained without domici-
liary visits. The windows a collector might count
without passing the threshold. Montague pro-
posed that the inhabitants of cottages, who
had been cruelly harassed by the chimney
men, should be altogether exempted from the
new duty. His plan was approved by the Com-
mittee of Wavs and Means, and was sanctioned bv
the House without a division. Such was the origin
of the window tax — a tax which, though doubtless
a great evil, must be considered as a blessing when
compared with the curse from which it was the
means of rescuing the nation." — Commona^ JmirnalSf
December 13, 1695. (Macaulay's History of Eng-
land, chap, xxi.)

COMMENTS AND ANSWERS.

[11.] The Constable's Accounts.

(No. 5.)
To readers who are not in the habit of examining
details these accounts may appear without interest,
and therefore I venture to record a few ideas res-
pecting them which have passed through my own

22 Notes and Gleanings;

mind. In the first place it will be noted that the
accounts refer to a period of tranquility. There are
no extraordinary payments for extraordinary ser-
vices. It is well to note this, because there had
been about this time some serious Jacobite risings.
Ihe Bevolution, which took place ten years
before, was now triumphant. The services ren-
dered are comparatively few, suggesting the small-
ness of the township at that time. According to
Baines, the town of Oldham so late as 1761, t.e.,
seventy years later than the date of these accounts,
consisted of little more than 100 cottages, mostly
thatched. We see also from these account? that
shrews, or high-spirited and lawless women, existed
in those days, and constable Tweedale has made
Mary Marlor, whose ofifence is not particular-
ised, infamous for ever. Measured by our
standard the sums paid for lodgings, vehicles,
carriage, and refreshments are ridiculously low —
3d. for a bed, 3d. for a mare to carry a passenger,
Id. given to a soldier, probably according to a
general direction, for relief. But these were
hardly payments for exclusive use of things.
There was in those days a good deal of mutual
help, uncharged for, which does not prevail now.
Farmers and others making journeys to and fro in
market carts, shan tries, and such like, accommo-
dated neighbours, and literally gave them a ** lift
on the road." Our old friends, the stocks, come in
for mention under the item, " A new pair of stocks,
3s. Id." It is clear that at that time there was no
idea of abolishing them. Could any of our
readers give us exact information as to when the
use of them was discontiued ? The ignorance of
constables generally is illustrated by these accounts.
One of the auditors, who was also a constable,
could not write, and had to perpetuate his ignorance
by making his mark. But those who knew how these
uneducated persons in old days were able, by the
help oi certain round O's, and crosses, &c., of their
own invention, to reckon rapidly and accurately,
will know also that they were able to do all that
this simple audit required. For further evidence
of the general ignorance of constables, of its own

Oldham and Nsighboushood, 23

pecnliar kind, consult the character of ** Elbow,"
in ''Measure for Measure," and our old frienda
"Dogberry and Verges," &c., in "Much Ado-
About Nothing." Petty constables of the times,
under consideration had charge of vills or tithings,.
and were sometimes called tithingmen. But high
and petty constables were formerly chosen
by the jury at a court leet, and were sworn
in and admitted there by the lord or
his steward. "In general all the permanent
inhabitants within a district, borough, parish,
or place, are liable to serye as constables;,
but they must bo persous of good character and
competent ability. If any one of them refuses to
serve, without he has a lawful impediment, he can
be fined." A constable's duties are: — (1) To con-
serve the peace; and all persons committing an
affray, assault, or breach of the peace, in his pre-
sence, may be arrested by him. (2) He may
arrest and detain persons reasonably suspected of
felony. (3) He may arrest persons of unknown
residence who prowl about in the night, and vag-
rants. Other executive acts devolve upon him at
times, such as serving warrants, summonses, &c..
The most probable derivation of the word " con-
stable " is from Anglo-Saxon, honing, a king, and
staple or stable, a stay or support. James But-
terworth, in his history of Oldham, tells
us the following incident, which shows how
loosely matters were carried on in those days : —
A John Murlin, a Wesleyan Methodist preacher, of.
Cornwall, one of the first noted preachers in Old-
ham, thus records an incident that happened to
him toward the end of last century : — ^At a village
called Oldham, about seven miles from Manchester
(a place famous through all that country for daring
and desperate wickedness), we had heavy persecu-
tion for a season. As I was going to preach in.
the street one Sabbath Day, two constables with
a great mob at their heels, took me into custody,
for riotous behaviour iu singing about two verses
of a hymu, as the people were coming out of ths
church ; they took me to a public-house (The
Shoulder of Mutton). The constables and their-

24 Notes and Gleanings.

Assistants were soon special drunk, and began to
quarrel with each other; from words they soon
went to blows. The house where we were
belonged to the clerk of the parish, whose
-son, thinking me ill used took my part. One
of the constables took him by the collar, on
which he wrested the staff out of the drunken
<K)nstable's hand, and broke his head with it ; the
next day I was taken before a justice, and bound
over to the quarter session ; but I traversed, and
had it tried at the assizes ; from thence the cause
was sent back to the quarter sessions, where it was
given against me. " The alehouse and the church
used to be very close acquaintances, if not fast
friends ; and const^ibles in old days were to be con-
■ciliated, or otherwise, with Sir John Barleycorn.
Of the latter fact local history abounds with
evidence. Editos O. E,

[12.] Oldham Grammar School.
(No. 8.)
Extract from a small Memorandum Book, pre-
served in the Parish Chest, in which are En,tered
the names of the persons, and what Books or docu-
ments they borrowed, so that we see a lending
library existed in 1752 : —

1752 — December 9. — To Mr Shaw, ^^chool Master,
the deed of Gift for the School Land and a
feoffee Deed. Dated in A.D. 1742.

January 27. — To Mr. Shaw, School Master the 3rd
Deed from Edmd. Ashton, Esq Dated May,
A.D., 1673.

1760— October 17.— To Mr. Joseph Shaw, School
Master, copy of Mr. Scholes Deed to pay
20s. p. year towards repairs of Oldham
School.

April ye 15, 1775.— Work Done at Oldham Church
of Plaster and whitewashing and all mate-
rials at the Sume of £3 18 0, by the Order
of John Winterbottom and James Butter-
worth, Church wardens.

April ye 15, 1775. — For witwashing Oldham School

by the order of the Church wardens, £0 6 6.

April ye 21, 1775. — Reed, the Contents of these

Oldham^nu Nkighloubkood. 25

Bills from James Butter worth by me Thos.
Whitaker. G. Shaw.

^aturbag, ^n^u^i 28tl), 1886^

NOTES.

ri3.] History of Parish Church Registers.

I send the foUowinG; contribution to Notes and
Queries apropos of Parish Church Registers.

The year 1558 is a date beyond which few church
registers go, and but few commence at this early
date, though Thomas Cromwell, with Henry VIII's
authority, in 1538, enjoiaed that every parson,
vicar, or curate for every church keep one book or
register for recording the date of every wedding,
christening, and burial made in his parish. Both
its novelty and difficulty operated against the in-
junction being universally obeyed. It was a
bothering and difficult business, because the book
was to be kept safe under locks and ke>s, in a sure
cofiFer, provided at charge of the parish, and taken
forth in the presence of the wardens for the entries
to be made. In Edward VI's reign (1547), the order
for keeping parish rej^isters had to be renewed.
In Queen Elizabeth's reign every minister had to
declare at his institution, *'I shall keep the regis-
ter book according to the Queen's injunction." In
1597 convocation took the matter up not only to
enforce it universally in the two provinces, but to
change the register from a paper to a parchment
book. Hence many of the oldest books are evi-
dently fair copies of the original entries ; the beauty
Qiud uniform character of the writing (as much as
the order of convocation) is sufficient to show this.
I want to account for the fact above stated, that
niany of these old records commence with the year
1558. A church canon published 1604, in the maia
*n enforcement only of existing laws, enjoined as
follows, that ** The day and year of every christen- •
ing, marriage, and burial shall be entered (in the
new parchment book),^' since the law on that
behalf was fir^t made, so far as the ancient books

26 NoTKs AND Glkaninos.

thereof can be procured, but especially since the*
beginning of the reign of Elizabeth.

The registers often begin with a title. I give-
as an instance the title (part of it) of the All
Saints* (Northampton) book : —

A regester booke contayning the names and

sirnames of all those that were baptized, buried,.

and married within the Parish Churche and parish

of All Saincts\ in the towne of Northampton,

sithence the first year of the raigne of our

soueraigne ladie Elizabeth, &c.

In some cases the original paper books containing^
earlier entries than those copied into the parch-
ment book or roll provided after the convocation
order of 1597 still exist. At Little Houghton,
Northants, the parchment register begins 1558, and
the origiual parchment book from which the tran-
script was made, remains and begins 1543, and St.
Lawrence, Jewry, London, has the original paper
book commencing 1538. Scrap of the regist^-
Leiccstershire dates from 1538. There are very few
so old. It was the usual practice in many places;
for a year'? entries to be made in a loose roll, and
then to be copied by the minister, who signed his-
name at the end, and sometimes the churchwarden
added theirs. At Gayton, Northants, these are ac-
companied with the words, "concordat cuoriginali."
Before leaving our notice of transcripts, I may men*
tiou that the convocation order for a general tran-
script was enforced at least in some cases since ; in
the charchwardens' accounts of Clerkenwell is the
entry : —

Paid unto Mr Dr Stanhope for that our register

book was not engrossed on parchment, 2s 8d.

Oliver Cromweirs time makes a general break
in the keeping of registers by the clergy, and occa-
sioned a (treat loss of the old books. A civil regis-
trar was to be appointed by every parish. He wa8=
to have the old books delivered up to him. Thi»
order or ordnance of Parliament was not generally
complied with, and in many cases upon the return
of the King, when the old order of things begair
again, the clergy who retained them had died or
gone away, and they never got back to their proper

Oldham and Nsighboubhood. 27

home. Only the civil reglBtrar's book was re-
turned, and this began the last quarter of 1653/
There is usually a statement in the old register of
the due appointment (for three years) of somtf
individual named ; it runs thus —

Wm. Southwell, admitted (by taking oath), t<y
be registrar of Broomsgrove, by Geo. Mil\i ard (a
justice of the peace), October 3, 1663, after a
special and true election by the inhabitants,
acting under an Act of Parliament dated 24th
August, 1653, &c.

Where the bookd previous to 1653 are not lost,
they have commonly a hiatus or chasm in the regis*
ter of a few years — thus explained by the Eib-
worth registfir —

A D. 1641. Know all men that the reason why
little or nothing is registered from this year 1641
until the year 1649 was the civil war between
King Charles and his Parliament, which put all
into a confusion until then ; and neither minister
nor people could quietly stay at home for one
party or the other.
At Rotherby the same thing is shown very epi*
grammatically : —

1643, Bellum ! 1644, Bellum ! 1645, Bellum t
. . 1649, 1650, 1651-4, Sequestration ! Thomas
Silverwood, intruder.

Bemarkably few marriages were registered during
the civil war in the disturbed districts ; the young
men had to fight instead of marry. The baptisms
fell off partly because of the religious opinions,
which held infant baptism unlawful or unneces-
sary, partly because the public ministers had
scruples as to the worthiness of parents. The
children of such were carried to other places
to be baptised, where the minister had no
authority to command the registrar to enter them,
partly because a little fee had to be paid for
registering. The books, when kept by civil regis-
trars, usually mix a list of baptisms with others
of marriages and burials. The three classes of
entries go backwards and forwards, and here and
there, in a very confusing manner, being first made
on loose sheets of parchment and then bound

28 Notes and Gleanings.

together. They are generally in English (instead
of Iiatin),and the handwriting is plain enough, but
49igns of illiterateness, so to speak, appear. For
instance, the name Glover is spelt Gloweer,
yVeafer for Weaver, soone for son. Antoniteb is
put down for Anthony Tebb, anclarke and edmon-
reve for Edmond Reve, and when capitals are
attempted bitr printing; is resorted to, and the letter
now and then is turned wrong way about, ,e.^.,
Edward, sonne of W. Wood and an his wife. Con-
tractions are used, by which m ovn are represented
by a mark over the previous letter, as Goodma for
Goodman. Two small /*'8 seem frequently to repre-
sent F, e.g»t ffrema stands for Freeman, and
ffauckner for Falkner.

The nearly general custom of registration owing
to the universal commotion occasioned by the civil
war, and also the displacement on a large scale of
the old clergy and the introduction into the Church
of a new state of things, made fresh legislative
direction needful if registering was to be continaed.
The Book of Common Prayer was proscribed, and
the Directory for Public Worship, put forth
January, 1644-5. took its place. The Directory
prdained that ** a fair register book, of vellum
should be kept, properly filled up, in every parish,"
and births, as well as baptisms, were to be regis-
tered by the minister. The Act of Parliament
passed August, 1653, coufiicted with this rubric,
since a lay registrar henceforward had charge of
.the parish register. This act both authorised
a pubJicatipn of banns after church service,
or at market - places, by the appointed
registrai', and civil marriages. . The man and
woman had to appear before a mayor or magis-
trate, and then the man, holding the woman's liand,
declared that in the presence of God he took that
woman for his wife, and also promised, in the
presence of God and before the witnesses present,
to be uuto her a loving and faithful husband. The
woman, in her turn, promised and declared simi-
larly. It seems incredible, yet for a short time no
other form of marriage whatever was lawful. W.
Penn, the Quaker, had said that before the Fall

Oldham and Neighbourhood. 29

God joiDed Adnm and Eve, and that in ancient
Scripture times X)eraona took each other iu marriage'
in assemblies of elders, and therefore his society
were directed to abandon apostate usages. "A book
called **The Old English Puritan," by J. Goree^
M.A., 1646, shows how the nation had been pre-'
pared for such a great innovation as the enforce-*
ment of civil marriage and the abandonment of all*
religions forms. Goree says : — " His (the O. E.P. 's)
first care was to serve God, and do what was right
in His sight. He esteemed order in the house of
God, but would not, under colour of that, submit
to superstitious rites, which are superfluous and
perish in the use." The authors of the Directory
issued January 3rd, 1644-5, explained their viewa*
very carefully, hoping thus to avoid hurting the
tender consciences of such crotchety people. The
Directory said, *' Because such as marry are. to
marry in the Lord, and have special need of in-
struction, direction, and exhortation from the.
Word of God at their entering into this new condi-
tion, and because they have need of the blessing of'
God on them, therein we judge it expedient that
marriage be solemnised by a lawful minister of the'
Word, that he may accordingly counsel them and
pray for a blessing on them." So, as we have it'
remarked in some register books, marriauos were*
mostly celebrated in churches '* in the Presbyterian .
way," and this continued, I imagine, to 1661. In
the Ashby 1^'olville register the first time the word»
*' were lawfully married" is under day 21, February,
1654, and I feel pretty confident this form implied
a civil marriage before a magistrate. In the
rei^ister of Appleby, Leicestershire, is a copy of the
Protestation of 1641 required to be taken of every- *
one 16 years of age ; it was signed by 144, who
also took an oath. In the register of Eastwell,
where the Duke of Edinburgh now lives, there i»
aUo a copy of the Solemn League and Covenant of -
1643 against Episcopacy and monarchy, signed by
19 person^ In 1661 the rejected clergy recovered
their old places, and the registers being given up
to them, the register of Manoetter, Warwickshire,
witoesses to the eireiit by a note, *' This book was

30 Notes and Gleaning i?*

vetnmed by W. Wilson, late registrar, to me,
Francis Bacon, April, 1661.

The sweating sickness or plague, which in
London in 1603, and antain in 1638, carried off
30,578 persons and then 10,400, appears from the
registers te have visited severally many country
towns and parishes.

The ravages made by this horrible disease can
be judged by inference from the following table
referring to Northampton. Twice the plague
broke out in that town, 1605 and in 1638 : —

All

1st.

St.

Burials.

Saints

Sepulchre's

Giles

Peters

Total.

In 1604

150

1605

401

130

623

1606

—

132

1637

127

1638

248

114

180

571

1639

149

Many soldiers fell in the little but frequent en-
counters of Boundheads and Cavaliers, and where
they fell they buried them. A struggle took
place close to Melton Mowbray, and six
years since several skeletons of the killed
were found close to the town. It seems
strange tliat they were not brought te the church-
yard there. Odd ones were. Here is a case :

*' 1643. Homo, oceisus tt aepuUueftut, Nov. 1."
Sometimes no entries of such burials in church-
yards were made. No doubt because the names
were all unknown. In Botherby churchyard, near
Melton Mowbray, soldiers* skeletons are known te
lie together, but the register has no record of their
interment.

. Latin was once generally used in making entries,
but this was optional ; some rectors kept to this
lanfl[uage and some preferred English mixed with
Latin words. At length Latin completely died out.

The little neat bits to be met with occasionally
impart life and interest to pages of dreary repeti-
tion of the accustomed forms — Mneata vidua ; JUitis
poptdi ; a syngel woman ; an ancient batchiUr ; an
aged oelebate : a noble warryore. After the Bapm.
of 13th child of Mr. Howes, Vicar fDeus Opt, Max,

Oldham and Neighbourhood. 31

iUi btnedicat) is added, may the truly good and
Almighty God bless the lad; «* The child of a
Hoague." Under burials^ 1630, after a woman's
name it is added, '* apprehended for a witch"
< whether done to death as one is not said). In
Halifax Register "8U8 per coll" (handled sum-
marily by magistrates' order) often occurs.
Halifax and Jedburg Justice was terrible, bat the
petition in the beggar's litany ran thus,

From Hell, Hull, and Halifax,
Gkxxl Lord deliver us.

A remarkable renewal of marriage vows is recorded
in Bermondsey Register, dated 1604. As Enoch
Arden then returned and claimed and regained his
wife from another man ; ** the man's speech " is in-
serted. He said (in church), ** Elizabeth my be-
loved wife I am sorie that I have so long absented
my sealte from thee, whereby thou shouldst be oc-
casioned to take another man to be thy husband —
therefore, I do now vow and promise in the sight of
God and this companie to take thee again as my
owne, and will not onlie forgive thee but also dwell
with thee and do all other duties unto thee as I
promised at our marriage." The woman's vow
exactly corresponds. J. Godron, Vicar.

Ashby Folville.
— Cttptedbypermimonfrom the Cheshire Notes and
Queries,

COMMENTS AND ANSWERS,

Dooo Whippeb.
(No, 2.;
[14.] In 1688 it was customary for dogs to enter
the church with their owners, as may be seen from
the following extract from '* The Faith and Prac-
tice of a Church of England Man," published in
1688. On pfli^e 78 the author says : — ** Neither
do I bring dogs into the Church, or encourage those
that are brought, very great unseemliness often
following it, and it being at the best, and always
a hinderance of composedness of Thought and a dis-
traction of Devotion, and argues some Irreverence
towards God." The payment to the *'Dogg
Whipper " in the Oldham accounts is in 1734. Is

32 NOTE,S AND- (jLEAXINKS.

this the earliest payment for this office ? It h easy
to see tliat a dog whipper would be required when
do^ were prohibited fiom cnteriDg the church »
as they woald naturally follow their masters as
usual. The real question is — When were dos^
first ordered to be kept out of the church ? And
— Can any of your readers give the copy of reso-
lution of the vestry, or of the ehurchwardens»
api>ointing a dog whipper ?

J. HOLLINHEAB.

QUERY,

[15.] Can any of your readers inform me how-
many histories of Oldham have been published, witb
the name of the publislier and the price they were
published at ? Hotspur.

^aturbap, September 4tl), 1886.

NOTES.

[16.] Heoistebs of Oldham Chukco.

The first vol commences
Baptisms 1558
Marriages 1598
Burials 1558

The names of such as were bap
at Ouldham Anno 1558.

Richard Clegg bap. Marcij xx

Katherin Chadertou ...bap. Aprill xi

Andrew booth bap. Aprill xxvi

AlliceHylton bap. May xvii

Agnes Brearley bap. May i

Thomas Halle bap. Juni vi

George Leese bap. June xxiii

Arther Scholes bap. July xi

Jane Scholes bap. August xxiiii

Elizabeth Scholffeld bap. Sep Ultimo

John Halle bap. Ootobris vi

Alice Greaves bap. Novembr i

Cycylye Brearley bap. Novembr i

Janne Ogden «m bap. Novembr xxi

Oldham anu Nkiguboubuood. 33

John Marchden bap. Novembr Ultimo'

Edmnnd hobkinc bap. Decembr xi

John Ciarside bap. Decembr xx

G eor ge Shepley bap. Decembr xxviii

Anne Booth bap. Jany x

Lnce Tetlow bap. Feb iv

Edmund Dowson bap . March viii

The names of such as ware buried at
Ouldham Anno 1558 xiiij

Nicholas Tay Her sep. Marcii xxix

John Hilton sep. May viii

Allice Smethurst sep. Maii xxiii

Baffe Scholes sep. July vi

AnnWylde sep. July xviii

Hobart Halte sep. Augustii xiii

Raffe Tetlow sep. Sept iiij

Margret W y Ide i sep. Sept xv

Allice Neild sep. Sept xxx

Robart Wolffenden sep. Novemb xxviii

Ann Bright sep. Dec xxiii

J ames Wilkinson sep. Jan vi

Dorathe boardman sep. Jan xviii

Emne Chetham sep. fifeb iii

G. Shaw.

[17.] Marriaobs at Manchester Collegiate
Church, a.d. 1581-1739.

Mr. John Owen, of Stretford New-road, Man-
chester, contributed to the " Local Gleanings"'
io the Manchester Courier^ in 1879, the first portion
of '* Extracts from the Manchester Cathedral
Registers— Wedding of persons from distant par-
ishes." Some of these entries refer to marriages of
membera of families belonging to various parishes,
of which we find the following examples in Mr.
Owen's excerpts. The entries run from 1573 to-
1750, but the earliest local item occurs in 1581 : —

1581. fieb. 4. — Hughe Ouldham, istius and Eat

Knowle de Bolton.
1627. Oct. 27. — SamuelHyde, parish of Mottrom, and

Anne Comlache, of Manchester.
1643. July 15.— James Ashton, parish of Onldam,

and Mary Chetam, of ye parish of Mottram.

34 Notes and Gleanings.

1653. January 18. — ^William Scoles, of Lowerhouse,
in Chatterton, yeoman, Widower, and Mary
Smethurt, of Covehill, in ye Township afore-
said, and Parish of Ouldham, Widowe.
Witness—Nicholas Whitehead, John Sme-
thurst, James Scoles, Richard Prondlove.

1653. Feb. 6. — John Chatterton, of Alkrington,
Husbandman,* sone of John Chatterton, of
ye same, Husbandman, and Mary Chatter-
ton, Daughter of Edmund Chatterton, of
Bradshawe, Gent., both of the Parish of
Prestwick, by Certificate. Witness^Edmund
Chatterton.

1655. February 6. — John Jenkinson, of Wood-
houses, in ye Parish of Ashton-under-Lyne,
Gentleman, Son of Samuel Jenkinson, late of
ye same, deceased, and Elizabeth Bulkeley,
of Salford, Daughter of William Bulkeley,
late of Manchester, Gentleman, deceased ,
now under the Guardianship of John Bulke-
ley and James Bulkeley, in the County of
Stafford, Gentlemen. Witness— John Byrom,
Gent, Henry Whitehalgh.

1656. January 12. — ^Raphe Wood, of Saddleworth,
in ye County of Yorke, and Ales Chadwicke,
of Manchester, Daughter of John Chad-
wicke, late Rector of Standish, deceased.
Married before Laurence Rostwne, Esq.
Witness— Mr. Johh Wickina, Mr. John
Chadwicke, and others.

.1656. January 12.— John Lees, of ye Parish of
Saddleworth, Husbandman, son of John
Lees, late of ye same, deceased, and Ann
Holt, of BUkeley, daughter of William
Holt, late of ye same, deceased. Witness —
William Bent, Matthew Simcocke.

1657. September 8.— Richard Tonge, of Tonge,
Gent, and Widower, and Mary Ogden, of ye
Parish of Prestwich, Widowe. Witness—
Thos. Howarth, John Collier.

1670. January 10. — James Winterbotham, of
Saddleworth, and Lidia Hardy , of Manchester.
(The above Lidia becoming a widow returned
to Manchester, and was buried at the

Oldham and Xeighdourhood. 35

Collegate Church.)
1695. Jdiiies Hardy, of Saddleworth, and

Mary Lees, of Heaton Norris.
1697. February 10. — John Scholes, of Chadderton,

Palish of Prestwich, and Ann Hartley, of

Manchester. License.
1705. October 3. — Mr. Richard Sugden, of Oldham,

clerke, and Mrs. Ellen Lightbourue, of Man-
chester.
1708. June 1. — John Walker, of Little Moss,

Parish of Ashton-under-Lyne, and Mary

Hyde, of the same. License.

1718. October 27. — John Ashton, of Oldham, and
Hannah Holkard, of Saddleworth. License.

1719. March 23. — Thomas Holroid, of Rush worth,
in the County of Yorke, and Mary Clarke,
of Oldham. License.

1723. November 28. — James Buckley, of Saddle-
worth com Ebor, and Isabell Stockporte, of
Ashton Under Lyne.

1726. December 29.— Ratcliffe Whitehead, of
Saddleworth, and Mary Corbialey, of Man-
chester. License.

1730. August 4. — Hugh Kinder, of Mottram,
and Mary Bcnshaw, of Oldham. License.

1737. November 16. — John Kennerley and Mary
Butter worth, both of Saddleworth. License.

1739. December 18. — James Scholes and Hannah
Hall, both of Chadderton. License.

J. HOLLINHKAD.

COMMENTS AND ANSWERS,
[18.] Histories of Oldham.

(No. 15.)

1. History of Oldham, with a plan of the town,
directory, maps, and pedigrees, by James Butter-
worth. Oldham : Priilted and sold by J. Clarke.
1817. Pub. at Ss. ; 12 mo.

2. A History and Description of the Parochial
Chapelry of Oldham, with appendix: map of the
town of Oldham ; 2nd edition ; by James Butter-
worth. Oldham: Printed and sold by J. Dodge.
1826.

36 NoTKS AND Gleanings.

3. A History of Oldham, in Lancashire, with &.
map of the parochial chapelry of Oldham, by Edwin
Batterworth. London : Chapman and Hall. Pub-
lished at Is. 6d. ; 12 mo. Printed by D, Evans ;
1832, pp. 62.

4. Historical Sketches of Oldham, by Edwin
Batterworth. This edition came out in parts, price

each, but watt not completed. August, 1847,.

is mentioned on page 281, and E. B. died April 19,
1848. Printed by D. Evans.

5. Historical Sketches of Oldham, by the late
Edwin Butter worth, with an appendix containing
the history of the town to the present time. Old-
ham : Printed by John Hirst, 1856, with 5 illus-
trations, 12nio.

6. The History of Oldham, from the earliest
period to the present time ; no author's name to*
the preface ; dated September, 1862, and supposed
to be by Abm. Morris ; only 2 parts issued, ends
p. 126 ; price 7d. each, 8vo. ; printed by David
Jack. G. Shaw.

^atttrtag, September lltl), 1886,

NOTES.

[19.] Registers of Oldham Church.
Baptisms Anno 1559.
Edmunde Greaves ....^ bap. Marcij xxvii

Thomas Hopwood bap. Marcij Ultimo>

B^ffe Jacson bap. Aprill iii

Anne Revell bap. Maij xviii

Margret Street bap. Julij iii

Jane VVylde bap. Ssptember viii

Izabell Ogden bap. September xv

Izabel Chetham bap. Septembr xxv

James Holme bap. Octobr iii

Charles Crosley bap. Octobr xi

Edmund Piatt bap. Octobr xxvij

Thomas Mathew bap. Octobr Ultimo

Elizabeth Leeze bap. Novemb i

Agnes Brearley bap. Novemb xiii

Thomas Schoffeld bap. Dec xi

Oldham and NsiaHBOUBHOOD. 37

Joh n Wylde bap. Decembr xxvi j

Ellyn Leeze bap. January viij

Thomas Cropper bap. Feb xxvij

Allice Buckley bap. Mar ii

Robert Taylier bap. Mar xx

Anno 1559 Burialls.

Henry Bucley sep. Aprill iij

Ann Sm et hurste sep. Aprill xii j

■Jane Taylier sep. Aprill xxvi

Edward Brearley sep. Junij i

Elizabeth Owen sep. June iij

John Mathew sep. Julij xiij

Gcorg Greaves sep. Julij xxvij

Richard Taylier sep. Sept vij

Emme Wyld sep. Octob viij

Jane ux. sender Wyld... sep. Octob xv

Elizabeth Tetlow sep. Novemb viij

Elline Whitehead sep. Nov xviij

Anne Chaderton sep. Deer ix

^"^^ev"".:^"!:! W ^'^'^ ^"'

Elizabeth Bucley sep. Jan xiij

Nicholas Blackley sep. Jau xv

Jane Stocke sep. Jan xxij

RobHeath sep. ffeb x

Jane Taylier sep. March j

G. Shaw.

[20.1 An Oldham Infant.
In ** Museam Europseum," p. 435, Mr. Charles
Hulbert gives the following account of an infant
prodigy : — *' Elizabeth Bradbury, who was born of
(poor parents, at Oldham, Lancashire, about the
year 1798. At the age of nine months she could
.almost articulate every word in common occurrence,
with the sole instruction of her mother. At
twelve months she could read, and shortly after
learned to write, and acquired some knowledge of
-the Latin language. At the age of 3 years she
sstood upon a table, placed in the pulpit of the

Methodist Chapel, Middleton and

preached to a numerous and respectable congrega-

38 Notes and Gleanings.

tion ; the effect upon the minds of the hearers was
most extraordinary ; some absolutely fainted from
excess of feeling and surprise." — It would be in*
teresting to know something of her life. Can any
of your readers give as any further particulars ?

J. HOLLINHEAD.

COMMENTS AND ANSWERS.
[21.] The Glass Window Tax.

(No. 10.)
It would be interesting to refer to the Act of
Parliament giving the exact terms of the basis on
which the window tax was levied in the year to
which the interesting list you have printed refers.
It originated in 1676. It was a source of the most
prolific revenue ; but the basis of the exaction
changed according to the exigencies of the exche-
quei'. In 1789 the dutj was levied on houses con-
taining twenty or more windows. It is clear that
in 1730 the tax was laid, as shown by the Oldham
list, on all houses which had seven or more win-
dows, those containing six being exempt. Houses
containing seven to nine windows were then
charged 2d., while from those containing 11 to 19
6d. was demanded. Oldham, it is clear, in the
year 1730 possessed some houses of goocj size, and
the names of about twenty of those dwelling in
them are indicated by the prefix ** Mr." In 1758 a
tax of 6d. yearly was levied on every window or
light in every dwelling-house inhabited which con-
tained 15 windows or upward. At another dats, in
the time of Brando, the limit was eight windows.
This tax supplanted the iniquitous hearth tax of
the Stuart dynasty, one of the chief causes of bring-
ing about the retreat of that family from this
country. In the first year of the reign of William
and Mary the hearth tax was abolished, to
the gratification of every housewife. The imme-
diate cause ot the levying of the glass window
tax was the deplorable condition of the English coin-
age — hammered, un milled pieces, all worn out, and so
very badly clipped that some were not worth half
their nominal value. The large expense of the
renewal of the coinage, when several mints were

Oldham and Neighbourhood. 39

set to work, fell on the exchequer, and a new tax,

to raise £1,200,000, was necessary. Montague, as

described in the passage jou have quoted fron>

M acaulay, was the ingenious author of the impost,

which was far less oppressive than the hearth tax ;

it brought vast sums into the revenue for over 150

years, viz., up to the 24th July, 1851, when it was-

abolished. The accomplished financier referred to

was Charles Montague, afterwards £arl of Halifax,

Chancellor and Under Treasurer of the Exchequer

from 1694, one of the most eminent statesmen of

the reign of William III., and known not only for

statesmanship but for his literary ability, being the

author, in connection with his friend Prior, of the

burlesque on Dryden's ** Hind and Panther,"

called "The Story of the Country and the City

Mouse." Montague was the patron of Addison

and iSteele, who dedicated to him in 1711 the second

volume of *' The Spectator" and the fourth volume

of "The Tatler." "While I bury myself," tays

the writer of the first dedication, "as a stranger

upon earth, and can pretend to no other than beinit

a looker-on, you are conspicuous in the world of

men and that of letters." In tlie year following

the* establishment of the Bank of En^U-'Ud,

in which Montague had an important share,.

he began to establish the English currency

on a sound basis, and thereupon that public

confidence in British finance was secured which

supplied the sinews for the subse(|ueut wars, loans

being henceforth made with great facility at low

interests. The window tax has always led, up to-

our own time, to the diminution of wiudows in

houses, and to the blocking of them up. Other

devices of ingenuity were encouraged by it, such

as bay-windows, bow -windows, or double or treble

lines of windows. These arrangements frequently

indicated penurious householders, and a poetaster

once described his friend's residence in gloomy

terms : —

There bounty never sheds her ray —
You e'en shut oat; the ii^ht of day
To save a paltry i<hiJliug.

Stretford, Manchester. John E. Bailey.

40 Notes and Gleanings.

QUERIES.

[22.] HosTON Monuments. — ^In the ** Horton
Chapel," in the Old Church, were several marble
monuments. During the re-buUding of the church
these were removed, and have never been replaced.
Can any one say what became of thdm, and, if not
destroyed, inform us where they are ? J. H.

[23.] Oldham Newspapers.— Will some of your
readers give us a list of newspapers published in
Oldham, with the dates, when started, and also
when discontinued ? H. Jokn.

Jiattirbas, September 18tl), 1886.

NOTES.

[24.] Saddle WORTH Church.

The following notes relating to the above church
are copied from the Raines M SS. G. Shaw.

a Saddleworth Old Church, or rather Chapel, under

Rochdale Vicarage.

Revd. C. Zouou, Incumbent.

Revd. SuTCLiFFE, M.A., Assistant Curate.

The Church is a very Old Building, and has a
strange appearance at the first entrance, there
being no pews, but only benches, with open backs,
and the ground covered with the remains of
Rushes, gathered the preceding year. Above are
two rows of Galleries up to the Roof, which are
approached by steps on the outside. It is in as
good repair as so antient a building can be expected
to be. The Chancel belongs to the Abp. of
Canterbnry, and is very decent. A curtain hangs
before a part of the communion rails, for the pur-
pose of screening the Minister in putting on his
Surplice, there being no Vestry. Directions were
given to the Chnrchwardens to erect a Vestry

o Vol, XV., p. 212.

Oli»ham and Neighboubhood. 41

which might answer the purpose, and contain the
Iron Chest for the Registers, according to the
Act of Parliament, which they promised to do.
The Church Tard is large and decent. The House
belonp;ing to the Curacy was never finished, and
is in a wretched state, nor can it he improved
during the present Incumbency. The barn has
been lately • rebuilt.

b The following singular letters appear to be
rough drafts or outlines of a correspondence
between the vicar of Rochdale and the incumbent
of Saddle worth respecting the tight of the former
to the patronacre of Saddleworth. The docu*
ments are almost illegible, and the numerous
interlineations and alterations would seem to
imply that some care had been employed
in the composition. They were found by me
some years ago in a large chest of MSS. (be-
longing to the Rev. Charles Zouch, at that time
Minister of Saddleworth, though incapacitated
from performing his duties by mental imbecility)
•carelessly lodged at a public-house near Saddle-
worth Church, then kept by one Bottomley. It is
oot unlikely that Dr. Drake, had given these and
other papers to his kinsman, Mr. Zouch, on his
being appointed to the curacy of Saddleworth.
There are no names or dates on the letters, but
the writer was Dr. Wray, Vicar of Rochdale from
1762 to 1778, and his correspondent was the
Rev. John Heginbottom, M.A., Incumbent of
Saddleworth from 1721 to 1771. Dr. Wray was
an exceedingly conscientious and pious man, and
appears to have held the dissolute habits of Mr.
Heginbottom in ereat abhorence, and the whole*
some rebukes of the Vicar led to the altercation
alluded to in the following letters. I permitted
Mr. Mills, the Curate of Dobcross, to show them
to the present Vicar of Rochdale m.lQ2Si and he
quietly deposited them amongst the Archives of
the Vicarage, ezpreariog much astonishment that
they should ever have found ttieti way to Saddle-
worth :—

h Vol. L, p. 267.

42 Notes and Glsaninos;

Rcvd. Sir, — I fancy you continue still desirous of
detaching your Chapelry from the parish of
Rochdale, and would shake off the connexion that
has existed between them, I suppose, ever since
there has been a Chapel at Saddleworth. If your
desire proceed, as I hope it does, from the right
which you conceive you have to be independent,
I Matter myself you will quit your claim as soon as
it appears clearly to be ill-grounded, and for satis-
faction in this affair then I refer yon to the manu-
script you have by you, which you favoured me
with the perusal of. There you will find that
W illiam-de-Stapleton took an oath in the Mother
vyhurch of St. Chadd, of Rochdale, which 'was to
bind both himself and heirs that he would
give the Tythes of his Lands in the forest
of Saddleworth to the Mother Church, and that
the said Mother Church should never be a loser as.
to the said Tithes by him or his heirs ; and that he
had got leave of the STicar of the said Mother
Church to have divine service performed always in
his Chapel of Saddleworth, provided the Capellanus.
or person appointed to officiate there be provided
by the parson of the Mother Church, and provided
also that the said Mother Church nunquam sit
perdens propter cum (Capellanus) nee aliquo modo-
scntiat detrimentum unde decresseat du~m ibi
serviet, and you learn from the same MS. that
Robert-de-Stapleton, who endowed the Chapel,
confirmed everything that had been done by
William - de • Stapleton in this affair. But
you will say, perhaps, that you found
the Independence of your Chapelry upon
the account given in the parliamentary survey
many years after the Endowment of the Chapel.
But you will please to observe that Mr. Parry, ^
who succeeded Lord Byron in the Great Tithes of
this Varish, grounds his right to your glebe on the
same authority. If you will allow his claim to be
just I may admit the validity of your arguments^
tiiough they be repugnant to an established customi

* Note in the margia of the letter :— Mr. Parry judjrad
from the aocounts of Bochdale Bectory in the Parlta>
mentary Surrey that there was some Glebe at SdddleworUk
belonging to it.

Oldham and Neighbourhood 43

of some hundreds of years and an agreement made
between the founder of your Chapel and the Vicar
of Rochdale. Nay, I cannot help telling you here-
that instead of you calling upon me to prove that
Saddleworth is a part of this parish, which
the Parliamentary Survey does not deny, though,
it calls Saddleworth a Parish, as Oldham
in the Parish of Prestwich is called, with as much
propriety. I ought to ask you, by the authority of
William and Robert-de-Stapleton, what right you
have to the Surplice fees of your Chapelry, when
a Chapel was allowed to be built there upon those
terms, that the Mother Church was t'» Buffer no los»
nor detriment from sucli diapel? That yourself
have allowed your Chapelry to be part of this
parish in Licenses you have granted, and in never
giving certificates, and I may ask whether you have
ever given a certificate setting forth that Banns
have been published at Saddleworth.

Here tlie letter ends abruptly, and no signature
is added.

c 1728 Oct. 17. A Vestry meeting held this
day m Saddleworth Church granted to John
Buckley, Gent., of Grotton Head, permission to
erect at his own proper expense a Small Gallery
over the North Door of Saddleworth Church, in
breadth from East to West 7 feet, and in length
from North to South 8 feet, for him and his
family to sit, stand, and kneel in during Divine
Service herein.

In the Chief Rent Roll for Saddleworth in the
year 1712 I observe —
John Buckley, Gent., de Grotton £ s. d.

Head, for Hollingreave 2 6

Mr. John Buckley, for new land &

Crawshawbent 1

d This Indenture, made this tenth day of June, in
the Twelfth year of our Most Gracious Sovereign
Lady Anne, by the Grace of God, &c.. Queen, and
in the year of our Lord 1712, Between Jaraes Ken-
worthy, of Quick Wood, in Saddleworth, yeoman,
on the one part, and John Gartside, of Denshawe ;
c VoUi., p. 211, d YoL v., p. 108.

44 Notes and Glkanings.-

Joshoa Radcliffe, of Saddleworth Folde; and
Bxibert Heape, of Grange, in Saddleworth, yeo-
man, 8c. Said Kenwortby, for certun considera
tion, bargain and sells to the others Three pews in
the Gallery at the West End of the Church of
Saddleworth, lately erected by him.

e John Buckley, of Grotton Head, in Saddleworth*
Oeut, by his Will dated 29th Aug., 1737, gave a
rent charge of £10 per annum issuing out of
premises situate at Fowleleach, in the parish of
Oldham. To his eldest son Richard Buckley, his
heirs and assigns for ever, from and after his age of
21 years, or the time of his marriage which : should
first happen. Char^^ed nevertheless and subject to
the payment of the Yearly Sum of Forty Shillings
to the poor Inhabitants of Quick and Saddleworth.
He directed that the same should be paid by his
fion Richard, his heirs, and assigns, to the Overseers
of the poor of Quick and Saddleworth for the time
being, and their successors to be by them laid out
upon Oatmeal, and given and distributed to the poor
inhabitants aforesaid Yearly every Christmas Day,
at Grotton Head, within Quick and Saddleworth,
according to the discretion and approbation of his
said Son Richard, his heirs and assigns. Richard
Fosbrooke Buckley, Esn., is now ttie owner of the
Farm in Saddleworth called Grotton Head, and his
tenant. Hush Shaw, distributes annually about
Christmas to the poor in his immediate neighbour-
hood a quantity of oatmeal, for which he is allowed
£2 yearly in his accounts with this his landlord.
We have not been able to ascertain whether the
oatmeal thus distributed is to the full amount of
jS2 a year, and though it would be desirable that
the inhabitant should have the means of ascertain-
ing that the Charity is correctly disposed of, it is
to be observed that the Testator has left the dis-
posal entirely to the discretion of his son, his heirs
and assigns.

Sub Notce. — The £2 is left to the overseers to be

by them laid out in oatmeal. This discretion is

Ric. Buckley, his heirs and assigns is merely to the

distribution. W. R. Hay.

e Vol. XT., p. 23,

Oldham and Neighboitkhood. 45

^aturbap, Jfteptember 25tl), 1886.

NOTES.

/ [25.] Saddlkwobth Church.
Letter 2. — Dr. Wruy to Mr. Heginbottom, of

Sa^dleworth.
Sir, — I have inquired into the practice which
you complained of when here you last at th&
Vicarage, and find that it has prevailed time
immemorial, and is encouraged by a similar one in
the parishes of Prcstwich and Halifax. The In-
habitants of Oldham have a Parochial Church, and
pay nothing towards repairing the Church at-
Prestwich, yet look upon themselves as within the
parish of Prestwich with regard to the liberty of
being married by Banns or License at the said
Parish Church, as well as at their own (and the
Inhabitants of your Chapelry seem to have so-
acknowledged a right to the privileee of being
married here, and have been so generally thought
within this parish that several couples who>
have been married from your Chapelry have been,
put down in this Register as being of this parish,
and no mention made of Saddle worth) and yourself
as Surrogate have granted a License not above a
year ago to a Couple of your Chapelry to be married
here or at your Chapel when one of the parties was-
of your Chapelry. The Clerk of this Church
remembers no such certificates. I would not have
you infer from this account of the state of your
case that I approve of, or am desirous of supporting,
the aforesaid practice. It certainly defeats the
ends and design of publishing Banns of Marriage
whenever it skreens any immoral or loose behaviour,
or promotes any improper marriages, and I shall
discountenance it as much as I well can, by
desiring the Clerk and Mr. Normanton (Curate of
Rochdale) to ask every one coming how and why
they do not stay in their own Chapelry. But I
cannot see how we can refuse to publish such Banns
of marriage as we have been speaking of (not to
encourage them by acquainting them with this my
opinion). I wish we could. Except you can prove

/ VoUi^p.2G9.

46 Notes and Gleanings.

the Chapel of Saddleworth to be a separate parish
of itself in all respects, which the Parliamentary
Survey is not sufficient to do, it is inaccurate.
Formerly 4 many Parochicl Chapels were called
Churches, and the Chapelries Parishes. The
account given in the Parliamentary survey (is) very-
inaccurate, as no' mention is made of the Vicarage.
(No signature or date.)

The following document on a loose scrap of paper
lias evident reference to the preceding letter, and
is in the same handwriting : — " Heptonstall Church,
in Halifax Parish. — Oldham Church, in the Parish
of Prestwich, ask what Certificates of Banns pub-
lished at Saddleworth were sent to the Minister of
JEtochdale by Mr. Heginbottom,

•* The Clerk remembers none."
1729, Dec. 25, Joseph Barlow, of Rochdale,

and Elizabeth Buckley of Saddleworth.
1731, Dec. 28, Edmund Lees, of Saddleworth,
and Mary Schofield, of Rochdale.

1750, Jan. John Whitehead and Hannah Gar-

side, both of Saddleworth.

1751, John Gartside, of this Parish,
and Sarah Shaw, of Saddleworth.

It is a circumstance worthy of being mentioned
in connection with the preceding letters that a
-strong feeling existed in Saddleworth relative to
the right of that place being independent of
Rochdale when I first went there as curate —
(F. R. Raines first mentioned at Saddleworth,
July 28, 1828) — and I believe Dr. Wray*s
letter, which I read to some of the mo{>t zealous
of the advocates of that view of the subject, had a
j>owerful tendency to diflabuse the minds of the
people. They had no knowledge of the question
having been agitated before, and I should conceive
indisputably settled. I may name, however, that
marriages from Saddleworth, solemnized at Roch-
dale, paid double dues, half of which was returned
to the Curate of Saddleworth, until Mr. Hay,
about the year 1824, pxohibited its being con-
tinued. Dr. Wray appears to have had continual
squabbles with the Minister and People of Saddle-

Oldham and Neighbourhood. A7

vorth, though always on the right side, and
always ultimately enforcing his view of the sjubject.

The following transcript is from a ragged piece
•of paper in the handwriting of Dr. Wray, and was
rescued from oblivion and destruction at the same
'time and place that the foregoing were. It may
'better explain the contents of the document to ob-
serve that on the death of Mr. Heginbottom in
1771 his Curate, Mr. Stones, a great favourite with
■the congregation, and a man of strict piety, was
earnestly requested to remain as Incambent, and
^ad the right of the Vicar not been mooted by the
preceding Minister, he might have complied with
the solicitation of the Inhabitants. This not being
•done, the Rev. Richard Podmore, LL.B., Curate
of Rochdale, was nominated to the living of Saddle-
worth, and the following letter is apparently a
rough copy of the Vicar's communication on the sub-
ject to . ... I know not whom. I have
partly preserved the Patrons interlineations as they
reveal the names of individuals, but the docu-
ment is only a scrap, torn, worn, and otherwise
•dilapitated . . . *' the person who officiated
there during the last four years of Mr. Hegiu-
bottom*s Incumbency, and is now employed by the
•sequestrators, was in a great measure subsided, but
finding in them within these two days a change for
the worse, and some' of 'em object to the with-
drawing of the caveat, * not Itas inclined to end their
^ippontiotitn an amicablemanner, though they ha veno
prospectof beingable to appointa person themselves,
and seem to have nothing in view but to oblige me
to take their man by threatening to make the
•clergyman I shall appoint so unhappy as they can,
«ad keep the present Curate as long as they can.
I must desire you will * speaJ: either to Mr,
Fog or Mr, Storey (Mr, Dennil ie employed
by them) call upon the Wardens as expe-
•ditiously as you can, to show cause why my
iClerk should not be licensed when I offer him. . .
I claim a right to nominate as being Vicar of the
Mother Church, and as it does not appear by the
Registry at Chester, which has been consulted some

48 Notes and Glkaninos.

tioae ago, by any Traditioa that any person besides

the Vicar of Rochdale have ever nominated to this

Chapel of Saddleworth." The few remaininfi^

scattered words upon the paper are abont . . •

'*The Impropriators . . . our late Bishops,

translation . . . dilapidations ... I was

in Town wn. . . . Bp. of Chester and Revd.'*

. . . But I cannct connect them, or make any

sense of them, in consequence of the letter being

torn.

(* The words given in italics are crossed out in the

original copy.)

From the foregoing Letter the foUowing facts may
be deduced : —

1. The Inhabitants of Saddleworth claimed the
privilege of nominating a Minister to the Church
without showing their right to do ae.

2. That the Parishioners had lodged a Caveat
against the Vicar's Ri^ht, and that some of the
parishioners even tnen were not willing to have
the matter amicably settled by withdrawing their
Caveat.

3. That the living was sequestered.

4. That the Inhabitants of Saddleworth haci
procured Council's, or, at least. Legal advice,
*'Mr. Dennil is employed by 'em."

5. That this state of things had continued for
some lenffth of time.

6. That the Parishioners had used high and
threatening language to the Vicar, because he
would not cede his right and comply with their re
quest.

Amongst the Witnesses to the reading of the
Consecration deed of Friarmere Chapel, Mr. White*
lock informs me that he observed the nan\e of '*John
Dennil, public notary." This deed is dated June
4th, 1768. The following note is in Handwriting
of the individual whose letters to Mr. Heginbottom
are s;iven before. In old writings ail the Chapelries
in the Parish of Rochdale are called parishes, and
Saddleworth is called a Parochial Chapel, like
Todmorden, in the parish of Rochdale. In the
Archbps. lease granted to Lord Byron Saddle-

i«-**^-«r * » »

■"* W "W"?^*

Oldham and NEioHBouBHoeD. 49

worth ia put upon a footiug with the Chapel of
Butterworth and Milurow. I once had the pri-
Tilege* of hearing the correapondenoe read by the
present Vicar of Rochdale to which the above-
documents refer. It appeared that Mr.|Heginbottont
was nominated by the parishioners, and appointed.
by Henry Pigot, D.D., the vicar of Eochdale, who-
shortly afterwards died in his 94th year. Mr.
Heginbottom had no regular license from Chester,
and if I recollect right, no entry of his appoint-
ment had been made in the Register there. Dr.
Wray's fears were very great when he ascertained
that the names of none of the Curates of the small
Chapels had been recorded at the Bps. R«gistr^
prior to the beginning of the 18th Century, and
that the Patrons were unknown by reference to the*
Registrars* Books. Dr. Wray therefore insisted
on the valadity of Stapleson's original Covenant,
which appears to have been communicated to hini>
somewhat prematurely by his contentious dis-
putant, and by some dexterity the latter wa»
induced to let the question drop. It was revived
by the parishioners on the death of Mr. Hegin-
bottom, but Dr. Wray, being still Vicar, exercised
his right, and thus clearly established the privilege-
ot his Successors.

QUERIES.

[26.] The Freehold Land Movement at Wbr-
vvra, — ^The other day a newspaper extract fell into
my hands describiog various movements that had
taken place in Oldham, in which occurs thefoUowing^
passage :— " They took an active part in establish-
ing the freehold land movement at VVemeth, Old-
ham." Can any of your readers furnish particulars-
of the movement referred to ? — G.

t ,y 'P H i^ <s

50 KOTBS AKD GlIANIKOS.

JSatttrbajj, ®ctober 2ttli, 1886.

NOTES.

[27.] Registers of Oldhak Church.

Baptisms Anno 1560.

henry Whlttaker bap. March xxvij

Edmand Leeze bap. April xj

Richard barratt bap. Mail iij

John Whittaker bap. May vj

ffranchis brearlei bap. May xviij

Ann Whittaker bap. June ij

John Matthew, and Wear

Margaret Whitehead/ bap. June vj

John Thorp bap. June xvj

John Coup bap. June xxviij

Agnes Turner bap. Jullij xii

Katherin Brearley .....bap. Jullij xxiij

Anne Crossley bap. Augustij v

John Wylde bap. Augustij xxj

James Mellor bap. Augustij xxv

John Ogden bap. Sep xxi

Elizabeth Sondifforth ...bap. Octob xii

Izabell Wylde bap. Octob xxvj

Luke Crompton bap. Octobr xxviij

S^c'hll^n ::::::;::H ^--^r «vj

James Sondifforth bap. Decembr viij

Allice Crompton bap. Jannuary xvj

JohnHoulden bap. ffeb xv

Jane Whittaker bap. ffeb xxv

Katherin Taylier, and\. „„ „■, ^^„:;:

James Taylier j^V- «^^ «vuj.

Yallentyne Wild bap. Mar xvij

Anno 1560. Barials xxiij,

Margery Bexwicke sep. Aprillis xv

Allioe Halle sep. Aprill xxi

Elizab wyld • . . .sepult. Maij j

Oldham and Nkigubourhood.

£lizabuxor. RaffeLeeze.8ep. Maij

John Wyld sep. Maij

Henry Bacley sep. Maij

John breai ley sep. Maij

John Cheetham sep. Janij

Margret Shaw sep. Junij

Jeffray Mylnes sep. Julij

Mar)(ery uxor. Thome

Chetham sep. Julij

William Winterbothom.sep. Augustii

Katberine CSreene sep. Aug

Henry Coup sep. Octob

Aune Cleaton sep. Octob

Will Scholes sep. Novemb

Ann Crossley st>p. Novemb

Margret Whithead sep. Decern b

Annis Cocker sep. Dec

Elizabeth Sclatter sep. Jan

Edward Xaylior sep. Jan

EUinne Buckley sep. March

Cristopher Bexwicke ...sop. March

Baptisms Anno 1561.

James W hithead bap. Aprill

James Bucley bap. Aprill

John Taylier bap, Aprill

Joane Mathe w bap. Aprill

AUice Whithed Iban Mav

John Wyld r"^^' ^**y

Mary Hylton bap. May

Will ffurnesse bap. Juno

Elizasabeth Bardsley ...bap. Julij

Henry Wyld bap. July

Margerie Garsyde bap. July

Izabell Broadbent bap. August

Margrett Whithead bap. Sep

Richard Sclatter, and\i ^ xr-,^„-»«»K^
James Walker ..! /^P' Novembr

Elizabeth Scholes bap. Decembr

Thomas Hey ward bap. Decembr

John Halkard ,bap. Decemb

Ottiwell Werrall bap. Janariij

Elizabeth Badcliffe bap. Jan

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xu
xxvi

52 NoTss AND Glbaninos.

Bartholomew Halkard..bap. Marcij ij

Agnea Whittaker.... bap. Marcij ix

Agnes Rrearley bap. Marcij xx

Margret Shaw bap. Marcij xxii

Anno 1561. BnriaUs xxilii

Margaret nx. Thome

Coup Sep. Mar. xxix

Elizabeth Shawe sep. Apprill viij

Allice Greene sep. April xv

Isabel] WoUfifenden ...sep. Maij ix

Edward Conp sep. Maij xxj

Edmund Whithead ...sep. Maij xxx

John Wollffenden sep. Junij viij

Henry Randes sep. Junij x viij

Allice Assheton sep. Julij xj

Jo. Brearley sep. Julij xviij

Margret Mellor sep. Julij xxiij

Allice Thorp sep. Sept viij

Allice Whithead sep. Sept xviiii

Isabell Travis sep. Sept xxv

Edmund Tetlow sep. Nov ij

Edward Sondifforth ...sep. Nov xij

Will. Gates sep. Dec xv

Anne Bardsley sep. Dec xx

Elizabeth Whittell sep. Dec xxx

Margret Heap ...sep. Jann xiij

Margret Hunt sep. Jann xxj

Ann Crossley sep. ffeb xv

CristopherM call, and \ g. , .

nicholas Jacson j^^' °®^ ^^"^

James Mellor sep. Marcij viij

G. Shaw.

[28.] Histories of Gldham.
Although the following books and pamphlets are
not primarily " Histories of Oldham," still they
may be of interest to ** Hotspur " and others of
your readers. They fitly supplement Mr. Shaw's
list as a contribution towards a Bibliography of
Oldham. I may note that neither in the following
list, nor in any other that I may subsequently send*
have I made any attempt at chronological order.
I have roughly adopted Captain Cuttle's advice
whenever a book relating to our town has come io

Oldham and Nsiohbourhood. 63

my way : —

" An Account of the Origin of Sunday Schools in
Oldham and Its Vicinity." By C. A. O'Neill.
Oldham : John Hint, printer, corner of Church-
street. 1848. Includin&; preface, pp. 32. This
pamphlet, which was published at one shilling, is
now very scarce. A copy is in our Reference
Library.

"The Oldham Ragged School: Its Origin and
Development." A historical sketch by W. Pullin-
ger. Oldham : Printed at the Express Office,
Yorkshire-street. 1883. Pp. 8.

''Rural Historical Gleanings in South Lanca-
shire." By Joseph Fielding, reporter, Middleton.
VoL 1. 1852. This volume contains a short, his-
torical sketch of Oldham, and interesting notices of •
local men of note.

"The Trotting Gazette, or an Address from one .
of the maoy thousand Non-electors of Bolton ; to
the Electors of Bolton, Manchester, Oldham, Roch-
dale, Blackburn, Bury, Preston, and Wigan."
Printed at Bolt6n for J^dward Gaskell. November,
1832.

*< The Tories Riddled : A Satire in Rhyme." By
Tinkum Fidelius. Printed by Balthazer Kopper-
blokken, at the English Press, Antwerp, 1863.
This is a small pamphlet of twenty pages alto-
gether. It consists mainly of 6 pp. of rhyme of
considerable merit, in which many of the pro-
minent politicians of the time are criticised with
much freedom ; and 6 pp. of prose called " Notes
in the Lump," which are a very clever satire on
the state of Oldham at that time. The preface of
2 pp. is dated Oldham, November, 1853.

" History of the Cotton Famine from the Fall
of Sumter to the Passing of the Public Works
Act." By R. Arthur Arnold, 1864. For account
of Oldham during cotton famine.

" A History of the Independent Church at
Greenaores, from its first establishment by the Rev.
Robert Constautine, down to the present date."
By the Rev. Geo.G. Waddingtcn, minister of Green-
acres Chapel. Manchester : Printed at the Ragged
and Industrial Schools, Byrom-street, mdcccuv.

I w

54 Notes and Glbanikgs.

Pp. 209, including title page, dedication, preface,
list of minifltera at Greenacres, list of places of
worship at Greenacres, and text. The preface is
dated Greenacres Lodge, Waterhead, near Man-
chester, October 4th, 1854. The book is illustrated
by seven excellent engravings* A copy is in the Free
Reference Library.

'^Some Obsen'ations upon Local Prevalence of
Idiotism and its connection with Goitre." By
Kinder Wood, Surgeon. A paper read before the
Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society,
November 3rd, 1820, and published in their
memoirs. Vol. 4, 2nd series, 1824. The locality
referred to is Oldham.

Referring again to Mr. Shaw's list of *' Histories,"
it would be helpful if he could give full particulars
of maps, pedigrees, &c., in each edition. This
would enable collectors to tell complete from in
complete copies. To illustrate the importance of
this I may mention that a few days ago what was
described as a splendid copy of Bradbury's
** Saddlewortb Sketches " was brought to me by an
amateur collector of local publications, but when I
looked through it I found it was a plate short. The
disappointment of the owner, who had paid a good
price for it as a complete copy, may be imagined.
Priory Chambers. W. Macki£.

^attirliaB, ©etober 9tl), 1886.

NOTES.

[29.] The Surveyobs' Accounts.

These following are the Accounts of Joseph
Seddon of ilbg-lane, Abraham Hilton of Broad-
bent, and John Jackson of Vineyard, Surveyors of
the Highways within the Township of Oldham in
the County of Lancaster for the Year of our Lord

1765.

The Accounts of Joseph Seddon.
BeceiTMi of UoasaUolders, Cottagers, £ s. d,

. and Labourers 16 9 9

Keoeivad of Peter WhitehMd Ute Sur-

Oldham akd Nkiohboubhood. 56

T«jor« 14 9

Total Beoed 17 14 6

1785 Diflbnrst u ffoUows. ~

Jan. 30— Yiewing the fioads 10

April 3— Paid Adam Heanthora and Jno. Aahton

for Oettingr Sand 18

I, 21— To a Labourer 3 days and a half i'th'

Maygate-lane 4 1

ti 25— To one Labourer one day and a half Old

May 8— Viewing the roads 10

», 9 — ^Atteng. a 4 Months' Sessions ajid.for a

Presentment 1 &

June 4— Paid Edm'd. Woolstencrof c for a Pick

and Hammer HelTO. ' 7

„ 6— Paid for Ale for 4 Stattute Carters 3

„ 6 — To one Labourer two days 2 4

„ 6 — To Leonard Jackson three days 3 6

„ 6— To John Wilde three days 7 6

„ 8— Paid for 2 Cart Load of Holders at 2s.6d.

p. Load 6

,t 12 — Paid Leonard Jackson and John "Wilde

Each 2 days 4 8

„ 12— Paid for Ale for 8 Statute Carters 1 4

„ 14 — To Leonard Jackson and Jno. Wilde

Bach one day 2 4

„ 14— Paid for Ale for 2 Statute Carters 4

„ 20 — ^Paid Isaac Clegg for Writing a List of

ye Inhabitants below town 3 0)

„ 20— Pai I Isaac Clegg for throe Days 3 8

„ 26— To One Labourer two days 2 4

„ 26— Paid for Ale for 5 Statute Carters 10

July 28— Paid Samh iStansfleld for one Load of

Boolders 2 6

„ 26— And for Leading 4 of Sleek 15

„ 26 — ^Paid James Ingham for 4 Load of sleek

at6id. p. load 2 2

„ 26— Paid John Duucuft for Bounding the

Beater 2

„ 27 — Paid James Buckley and otie Labourer

for two days Paving in Hathershaw-

lone 6 4-

Ang. 2— Paid for Ale for one Statute Cart.-. Z

A 8— Paid James Qreenwood for 2 Hors loud

ofbleck 2

„ 3 — Paid James Buckley and one Labourer

for Paving 3 d*ys in Hather«haw>lane 8 O
„ 9— Paid for one load of Boolders for Mny-

gate-lane 16

„ 10 — Paid James Buckley and iwo Labourers

for each Six days fa^iuK in Maygato>

lane 13

„ 10— Spent on tbo Workmen 1 Oi

„ 16— Toteu Labourers Each one day 10 U-

^A INons AND Glbakikos.

Paid to JoMphVeedham for stone 10

49 17— Paid JamoB BuoUey and two Labooxers

for each 3 daja Paring in Maygate-lane 11 6
„ 17— Paid Jaa. Backloy and three Labourers
for Each two days Paring near

Boggard hole 10

«, 17— Paid James Buckley and two Labourers
for Eaoh one Daj Paring near Har-

greares 3 10

«, 17— Spent on the Workmen 10

4, 20— Paid for Ale for one Statute Carter ... 2

M 20— Paid Samuel Mellor for a new Pick 8 8

M 24 — Paid James Buckley and 4 labourers for
Each 6 days Paring near Bedtom

Nook 1 10 10

Paid William Hilton for laying two

Platting Stones 3

„ 28— Paid James Buckley and three labourers

Eaohoneday 5

Spent on the Workmen 10

,« 26— Paid for the were of a Wheel Barrow... 10

;S€^t. 17— Paid two Labourers Each 9d 16

Oct. 26— Paid Titus Bardsley for 160 load of Stone

atone Penny p. load 18 4

And for two load of Platting Stone at

lOcLp.load 18

Dec. 26— Spent at Choosing New Surreyors 1

1788.
Jan« 1— Paid John Shalcross for Sharpning and

Laying a Pick and for other work ..* 2 4
„ 8— Paid for 11 Load of Boiders at 2s. 6d p.

load 17 6

Jm 13— Spent at Shewing these Acoompts to the

Town 10

at 14— Atteng. a Sessions at Bochdale wn. I

went out of office 16

Paid for Writing these Acoompts 10

DiAburst. iT'o 6

Beceired 17 14 6

In hand 6 14

1768. «==*

Jan 13— The Accounts of Joseph Seddon seen

and Approred by

Gheorse Worthington,

Jonathan Buckley,

William Jones.

The Accounts of Abraham Hilton.

Beceired of Housholders, Cottagers,

and Labourers 11 4

1766. Disburst as foUoweth.
Jan. 30— Viewing the Boads 10

Oldham and NEiOHBoimitooD. 57

8— Viewing ye Roads 10

M 8^A.ttonduig a Month's Sessions at Sochp

dale 16

Same time Paid for a Presentment 6

Paid for Drawing the Turnpike List ... 1
June 1— To five Labourers Each 6 days on Green^

acresmoor 1 15

Spent on the Workmen 10

M 8— To two Labourers Each 6 days at

Hlghermoor 14

To two Labourers Each three days at

Ditto 7

To fire Labourers Each 6 days on Qreen-

acresmoor 1 16

Spent on the Workmen 10

a, 15— To five Labourers Each 6 days on

Oreenaores moor 1 15

M S3— To four Labourers Each 4 days at Ditto 18 8^

Spent on the Workmen 10

«, 28— To 3 Carts wth 2 Horses each 1 day on

Greenacres moor 10 6J

To 6 Labourers Each 6 Days at Ditto ... 1 15
To 3 Carts with 2 Hoxses Each 1 Day at

Ditto 10 6

Paid for Ale for 24 Statute Carters at one

pint p. day P. man « 4

Paid for Getting Clods 10

To one Cart one day wth 2 Horses and a

Man 8 6

To one Cart wth one Horse and a Man

oneday 2 8

To one Laboured 2 days 2 4

^ Paid for a Pick and Hammer Helye 10

Dec. 26— Spent at Choosing New Surveyors 10

1766
Jaxu 8— Paid Sam Meilor for Sharpning and lay*

aPiok 10

„ 13— Spent at Shewing these Accounts to the

Town 10

,, 14 — ^Atteng. a Sessions at Bochdale wn. I

went out of office 16

1766 —Paid for Writing these Accounts 10

June 22— To two Labrs. Each 4 Days on Green-
acres moor 8 4

Disburst 11 17 10

Heoeived 11 4

Out of Pocket 13 10

The Accounts of John Jackson.

HeceiTed of Hon8holders,Cottag«rs, and

JLabourers 4 18 1|

68 Notes and Glsaninom

1766)i Diflbont u f olloweth.

To one Labourer one Daj 12

PaidforaWiBket 5

Paid to a Labourer Dreaaing the

Soade 6

To two Labourers Each Half a Day 12

To a Labourer one daj 12

TooneLabonreronedayandaHalf 16

Paid for Booldert 6

To one Labourer three days 3

To one Labour one day 6 12

Spent on the Workmen 6

To one Labourer 4 Days 4

To one Labourer one Day 12

To one Load of Paying Stones 10

Paid to a Paver and one Labour. 8 6

To one Labourer one Day 12

To Abraham Hilton Cart One day 3 6

For Leading 5 Load of Band. 6

To a Labourer one day 10

To a Labourer one day 12

Spent on the Workmen 4

To One Loaid of Stone 10

To one Labourer two days 2 4

To one Labourer two days 2

To 3 Stumps at 4d. p. Stump 1

To 3 Load of Stone at 2d. p. Load b'

To 5 Labourers Eaoh one day 6

To one Labourer one day 12

To one Labourer 2 Days 2 4

Paid for 7 Load of Solders at lOd. p. load 6 10

Paid for Cart Work 2 3

Spent On the Workmen 4

To 5 Labourers Each one day 5 2

To John Cocker Cart One Day and a

Half 4 6

'^ — ^vTo John Wilde Cart Half a Day 16

To 4 Labourers Each One day 4

To two Labourers Eaoh One Day 2 4

To 3 Labourers Each One Day 3 6

Spent on the Workmen 10

Setting a Stump 2

Paid for Bepairing a Wheel Barrow./.... 8

Paid to a Labourer for half a Day 7

Dec. 26— Spent at Choosiog new Surveyors 1 O

Spent at Shewing thesa Accounts to

the Town 10

Atteng.- a Sessions at Sochdale wn. I

went out of office 16

Paid for Writing these aooounts 10

Diaborst .467

Beoetred 4 18 li

In Hand 12 8fc

Oldham and Nsiohboubhood 59

Total Beoeived 33 16 7|^

Total Disbnnt 87 3 11

Total inHaad. « 6 12 sj

1768.
Jan. 13th— The foregom^r ftooounta of Joseph
Seddon, Abraham Hilton, and John
Jackson seen and Approved by
James Kershaw. John T. Wolfenden's

mark,
James Wolfenden, John Lees,
Josep. Dunkerley, Edmnnd Milne,
Balph Wolfonden, John t Dnnkerley'sMark,
James Dronsfield, Saml. Winterbottom.

Lancashire to wit, 14th Jan., 1766.

Allowed by ns, two of his Majesty's Justices of th»

pcaoe in and for the said County, upon the Oaths of Joseph

Seddon, Abraham Hilton, and John Jackson, Surveyonb

As witness our Hands—

Bichard Townley,

Bobert Entwisle.

O. SHAW.

COMMENTS AND ANSWEES.
[30.] Histories of Oldham.
In addition to those p;iven by Messrs. Shaw and
Mackie, I may add a brief history of the Inde-
pendent Church, Waterhead, as given in "A
Manual Published for the Use of Its Members ixk
1884-5." Hirst and Rennie. It is the substance of
a paper read by Mr. Samuel Kershaw on the occa-
sion of the laying of the foundation-stone of the
present building, July 17th, 1869. Other epitome*
of local history may be found in the various direc-
tories of the district. W. Booth,

jSatttrtap, ©ctobec 16tl), 1886.

NOTES.

[31.] Rbgisteks of Oldham Church.
Baptisms Anno 1562.

Jane Halle bap. Octob xxvj

Ralfe Travis bap. Novemb iiij

AnnClegg bap. Novembr vj

Jaune Besxwicke b»p. Novemb xiij

XXIJ

60 Noras. AKD Glsakikos;

Thomazin Taylier bap. Decemb xvij

Alice Ogden bap. Decemb vij

— ^JeflTrey Wylde bap, Decemb xj

Edward Hall bap. Decemb xiiij

Georg Halle bap. Decemb xxix

Rafife Whittaker bap. Januarij vj

— Thomas Wyld bap. Jan xxvij

RobartHall bap. Jan xxvilj

Jane Whitle ..bap. fifeb vij

KatberinTetlowand\v,^^ «., »

ElizabethHyne...r*P-^^^ ^J

Elline Maraland bap. feb xxvij

BobartWinterbothom.bap. Marcij x

Edmund Hallowes ...bap. March xj

Edmund Houlden bap. April xix

Margery Smethurste... bap. Apr xxix

AUice Colburne bap. Mail vi

Alice Gey bap. May x

Thomas Neeld bap. Maij xix

John VYolfenden bap. Maij xxij

John brearley bap. Jnnij xvij

Alice Ashton bap. June xxiiij

Ann Cley ton bap. June xx vj

Ann Taylier bap. Jullij xix

JaneGodward bap. Julij xxj

Esabell Bex wick bap. Augusti j x vj

AKce Tetlow and\. ^ a ««„-♦:;

Isabell Walker ...r^P" ^"S^»^»J ^^

John Yates bap. August! j xxx

Ann Cud worth audit ^ q^^ .

Rafffe Jackson /^*P- ^P ^J

Alice Tborpe bap. Sep vij

Thomas Jacson bap. Sep xiiij

Thomas Brearley bap. Sep x v

John Taylier bap. Sep xvij

Thomas Heap bap. Sep xxij

Ann Sondifforth bap. Sep xxiij

Izabell Sclater bap. Sep xxix

Agnes Hopwood bap. Octob xviij

IOldham and Neiohsoubhood. 61

Anno 1562. Barialls xxxvj

Jannet Tetlo w sep. novemb viij

Catherine Chatherton sep. novemb xiiij

Thomas Jacson sep. novemb zxix

John Garsyd sep. Bee xviij

AUice whittaker sep. Dec xx

James Scholes sep. Dec xxiij

Geors Greene and'\^^_ t
Mwgery Seavell )»«?• ^'^ ^^

George Taylier sep. Jan xxiij

Clemant Tetlow sep. ffeb viij

Robart Tetlow sep. feb xr

Raffe Whittaker sep. feb xxiij

Allice Coup sep. March xvij

Robart Jonson sep. Aprill xvj

Anno Cleaton sep. Aprill xxvi|

Lawrence Heape sep. maij i

John Boardman sep. maij viij

Elizabeth Hartley sepult. may x

Katherinewild sep. maij xviij

Margret Ratcliff sep. maij . xxi

Allice ogden sep. maij xxij

Georg Ogden sep. maij xxiii|

Henry wild sep. Junij xij

John Kershawe sep. Junij xxiij

Grace coup sep. July iii

Anne Neld and\„^^ t„,..

James Leeze /^P' ^^^^ ,^

Margery wild sep. Julij xv

Edward Hartley J uli j xviij

Alice bowker sep. Julij xxviij

Jane Haslom sep. Augustij xv

John Taylier andL

Anne Turner |««P- ""P "'"J

Isabell battersby sep. sep xxx

Alice ux. Rob Gartsyde. sep. octob xviij

Jane Leeze sep. octob xx

G. Shaw.

[32.] Books Rblatino to Oldham.

Ck>ntinuing my former list, the following books:

may be noted as useful to the student of local

history : —

" Roy ton and Chadderton ; their Associations lor
Mutual Improvement. Self-educated Men m

64 Notes and Gleaninus.

her HighDe8s*8 fr^e School, so lately by her gra-
tiously founded, is io danger to be dissolved
unless it mifi^ht please your Honourable Lordship
by your authority (which the said Sir Edward
doth most rererence) to bring him to some
reason, whereby three hundred poor Scholars and
Students shall be bounden continually to Pray for
your good Lordship.

Your humble servant,

Alexander Nowell.
Martii 1594

To the Rt Honorable my very good Lord, the
Lord HiG[h Treasurer of Eo&iland theise.

The following letter is without date, but it wa»
evidently written about the period above men-
tioned, and was also addressed to Lord Bur-
leigh :—

My brother Robert, late attorney of He^
Majesty's Court of Wardes, about vi hours before
he died said unto me, *' forget not Middleton
School and the College of Brazennose, where we
were brought up in our youth, and if you would
procure anything to continue with my money
you shall do it best and most surely in the
Queen's Majesties name, whose poor Officer I have
been." And upon these words I was occasioned
to think of the foundation of Middleton School, and
of certain Scholars to be chosen out of that School
into the College of Brazennose, there to be main>
tained with certain exhibition. And FirJBt, for
three years space before I obtained the said
foundation, I sent yearly £20 to the Principal and
Fellows of that College, to be bestowed upon six
poor Scholars, and when by your Lordship and Sir
Walter Mildmay's means, I had obtained the
foundation of the School, Her Majesty most
sraciously and bounteaously giving freelv £20
Yearly for ever, which I would have purchased
of Her Majesty. I was thereby more inflamed
to go through with that which I first in-
tended, wherefore to that purpose I purchased
in reversion of the Lord Cheyney the Manor
of Uppeburye, with the parsonage of Gillingham»

Oldham and Neighbourhood. 65

in the County of Kent, which ia worth one huu"
. dred marks or more yearly, for the which I pay*d
• my Lord IXcli. and Xli. , with a purse of XLs. to my
Lady for her consent for that my Lord Cheney hath
reyersed unto himself the rent during his Life. I
prayed Mr. Auditor Tooke, who, in consideration
of a lease of Esyndon, in the County of Hartford,
was contented to pay me yearly XV£ for the space
. of zvi years to assure the same unto the College
of Brazennose, which I do yearly make up to the
anm of XX£ to the use of vi poor Scholars in the
said Colle^ named in the foundation Queen Eliza-
beth's Scholars. I have dealt with my Lord
Cheney topurchasehisinterestforthe term of his Life,
that I might put the College in full possession, as
well of the rent as of the lands, which, if I could
compass this, should be xiij Scholars founded in
Brazennose, and the Usher of the School, hi»
Wages should be made up X£, which is yet but
£6 8b. 4d.

I had also bnilded ere now a fair School House,
with lodging for the School Master and Usher.
Saving that young Mr. Ashton, Lord of Middleton,
being under the age, can make no assurance of the
ground whereupon to build the same. I will
bestow a lease to that use with the College upon
bond if I die before. Two Hundred Marks at the
least.

To the Rt Honble my very good Lord
The Lord Burghley.

h The Letters Patent for establishing a Grammar
School at Middleton bear date 11th August, 1672,
on the petition of Alexander Nowell, D.D., Dean
off St PanVs. The school had a Master and an
Usher, or under Master, and was called the " Free
8cl|ool of Queen Eizabeth in Middleton," although
it appears the Queen was merely Instrumental in
carrying into effect the dean's intentions, the
whole of the property named in the Letters Patent
being directly or indirectly from Alkxakdbb-
KowxLL. The founder appointed Mr. Edmund
Inland the first Master, and willed that any snb-
vaqnent Master should during the life of the said
founder be appointed by himself, and after hi»
h Baines's XB., toL ziiL, p. 187.

66 Notes akd Gleanings.

•death by the Principal and Scholars of Brazennose
College, Oxford, who are incorporated by the
Queen as Governors of the School. Tlie Qaeen
-further ordained that there should be of her own
foundation in Brazennose College vi scholarships, to
be elected from Middleton, Wh alley, and Burnley
Free Schools, the nomination of the Scholars to be
in Dean Nowell during his life, and afterwards in
the Principal and Scholars of Brasennose. The
■Queen also cave license to the Dean, his heirs,
&c., to found seven other scholarships in Brazen-
^dse College, also to be called Scholars of Queen
Elizabeth, with such stipends as the Dean should
appoint, with permission that he during his life,
and the Principal and Scholars of Brazennose
College afterwards, should make statutes and
ordinances for the Government and direction of
the Masters and Scholars of the School of Mid-
dleton, and also for the disposition of the Rents
-and Revenues thereof. In furtherance of
this intention the Queen granted to the
Principal and Scholars of Brazennose certain
annual grants amounting to the sum of £20,
also her two-thirds part of Boyton Hall Manor for
the use of the said Free School, and 20 marks a
year at least to the Master of Middleton School,
to the Under Master half that amount, and to each
-of the Six Scholars five marks. Her Majesty also
granted permission to the Principal and Scholars of
Brazennose to take other Lands, not exceeding £100
per annum, either from Her and Her Successor, or
Alexander Nowell, or any other person, for the
better support and maintanence of the said Free
^School and Scholars, and for the support of the
poor Students in Brazennose College, and for further
augmenting the number of Scholars and Students^
The Letters Patent stated the premises thus
granted had come to the Crown by force ot a statute
of the I. Edward VL, and where to be held in as
-ample a manner as the Dean and Chapter of St:
Paul's held, or ought to have held and enjoyed
them. From this it would appear that the
Queen confirmed to Brazennose College rent and
premises derived from the Dean and Chapter

Oldham and Nkiguboubhood. 67

of St. PauPs. This Wew is confirmed by two
Indentures, the first dated 30 April, 1572, and made
between the Principal and Scholars, 1st part,
Alexander Nowel, Dean and the Chapter of St.
Paul's 2nd part, and William Cotton 3rd part, who
held the Manor of lioyton Hall under a lease from
the Dean and Chapter for a term of which about
6B years were then unexpired. This indenture,
after reciting a doubt as to the validity of the
Queen's grant of th*» two-third parts of Boyton
and the other chai&;es thereon mentioned in the
Letters Patent on the ground that the Crown never
had seisen of the premises, confirmed Cotton's title
to the Manor for the remaining term of 58 years,
and by the next indenture, dated 25 Oct., 1574,
made between the Dean and Chapter 1st part, the
Principal and Scholars 2nd part, and the Master of
Middleton Free School 3rd part, wherein the Dean
and Chapter covenant to pay to the Priucipal and
Scholars and their successors for ever the yearly
sum of £20, and a further yearly sum of £4 13s. 4d.,
which they were to receive from Cotton during his
term.

Alexander Nowell, having in Letters Patent
License to make a further grant, with that view
purchased of Lord Cheney the reversion of the
Manor of Upberry and Rectory of Gillingham, with
the Chapel of Lyginge, subject to a lease of 60
years, to one Peter Rowle, from Michaelmas, 1566,
at a rent of 5 marks and Eight score find Eight
quarters of dried Malt, and having regranted the
fiaid premises to Lord Cheny for the term of his
Life, at a peppercorn rent, and having granted a
lease of the premises, to commence from the death
of Lord Cheny, to William Dear and Thomas Bow-
yer, for a term of 99 years, at a rent of £66 13s. 4d.,
he, by a pole deed, dated 10 April, 1579, granted
all the said premises, and all his right therein, to
Queen Elizabeth and her Successors for ever. And
by Letters Patent, dated 25 June, 1579, Queen
Elizabeth granted all the premises comprised in
the deed pole to the Principal and Scholars o
Brazennose College and their Successors for ever.
The Queen enjoyned that the Principal and Fellows

68 Notes and Gleanings.

of the College should take an oath in the Public
assembly that they would pay over the reDts, &c.«.
of the premises to each of Her Majesty's xiij poor
Scholars elected out of her free School of Middle-
ton, or from any other School in the County of
Lancr., for their support annually £3 6s. 8d.,
and to the Master £1 3s. 4d., and to the
Usher £3 6s. 8d., as an augmentation of their
Stipends, and 68. 8d. a week for the improvement
of the commons of the Principal and Fellows. At
the dates of these Letters Patent, Lord Cheney wa»
living, and the reserved rent of £66 13s. 4d. in the
lease to Dear and Bowyer did not come into posses-
sion till Lord Cheney's death in 1585. But by the
recital it appeared in an Indenture of 1 Jnly, 1587»
by which Bowyer assigned his lease to Elizabeth
Nowell and Edward Blunt, her son, with the con-
sent of the Principal and Fellows, upon beneficial
terms ; that Alexander Kowell had, during Lord
Cheney's life, made large advances for the purpose
of the Letters Patent in aid of the two sums of £20
and £4 13s. 4d., and in consideration of these ad-
Tances the Principal and Scholars joyned in the
assignment. It has loner been the habit of th»
College to renew leases at the same rent, £66 138. 4d.,
taking large fines, and certain parts of the
property have been sold under Act of Parliament
exceeding £7,000, invested nevertheless in an
Estate called Holbeach, in the corporate name of
the College and for its general benefit.

In ,1712 the 13 scholarships were consolidated
into one, there being so great a deficiency of can-
didates, and from that time to 1834. 109 persons
have been elected either as Scholars or Substi-
tutes in the room on the foundation of the charity.

In Nov., 1831, The Attorney-General in the
Bolls Court, ver. Brazennose College, at the re-
lation of Ed., Lord Suffield, and Alexander
Nowell, Esq., a descendant of the Founder, called
upon the court to rectify certain alleged abuses
growing out of the preceding statement^, vis. :
lluA the Charity had been long neglected ; parts of
the Trust Property wrongly sold to the Board of
Ordinance; that the School House, erected by

Oldham and Neighbourhood. 69

Dean Nowell, had been suffered to go into a
Tuinous condition ; that no scholars had of late
l)een sent to Brazennose College from the School,
■and that, though frequent applications had been
made to the Principal and Fellows to perform
the trusts reposed in them they refused to comply.

The Master of the flolls decreed that the sti-
poids alone belonged to Middleton School, and
that all the surplus of the increased rents belonged
to Brasennose College for its general benefit.

In July, 1834, the same case was heard before

the Lord Chancellor and other Peers in the House

of Lords, being an appeal from the decision of the

Master of the Rolls, who dismissed the information

filed by the Attorney-General in the Court of

Chancery. Decree confirmed.

G. Shaw.

jkiiuxi^, ®ttober 30tl), 1886,
NOTES.

[34] MiDDLBTON Gbammab ScKOOh* -^ ( Continu/ed. J
Am mentioned previously, Sir Edward Hobie (the
lessee of the manor of Upbum and parsonage of
Oillingham), an avaricious courtier, peculated the
tevenues of the school by withholding the rents
for several years, owing to which malversation the
venerable founder was reduced to great distress
irom his endeavours to uphold the institution thus
wrongfully deprived of its revenues^ as appears
from the following, of which the spelling is
modernised : —

ORIGINAL PETITION.

(Harl. MSS., cod. 6.853, fo. 161.)

c *' To the right honourable Sir John Pickering,

knight, lord keeper of the great seal of England. —

Humbly complain unto your honourable lordship

yoor daily suppliants, Alexander Nowell, Dean of

Bt. Paul's ; Richard Harries, principal, and the

fellows of Brazenose College, Oxford ; and thirteen

of her majesty's poor scholars there, of her high-

neos's late foundation, and the schoolmaster and

c Bftinas, Lancr., vol. i., p. 472.

' 70 Notes and Gleani50s^

luher of Middleton School, in Lancashire,
lately also of her majesty founded ; that
where[a8] in the sixteenth year of her majesty's
reign (1575) the said dean purchased the rever-
sion of the manor of Upberry and rectory of
Gillingham, in Kent, and gave the same to her
majesty, which was by her highness assured to
the said college for the maintenance of the said
scholars, schoolmaster, and usher, and to the
amendment of the fellows* commons (being before
but 14d. weekly), to take place on the decease of
the Lord Cheynie ; for which manor and pcur-
sonage, upon a lease made by the said Lord
Cheynie, there viae hve marks (£3 6s. 8d.) rent in
money, and 8 score 8 quarters of malt reserved.
So it is that Sir Edward Hobie, knight, having
the interests of the said lease, hath since the Lord
Cheynie's death answered in money, part at his
own pleasure, sometimes more, sometimes less, for
the same, and is at this present three whole years
behind, and will not pay the malt rent, as he
ought to do, nor in money, but so much or
little as pleaseth him, and when it pleaseth him,
neither will observe any covenant of his said lease.
The said rent in malt the college in good conscience
hath allowed the said dean to receive towards
his housekeeping in respect that in Lord
Cheynie's lifetime, for the space of fifteen years,
he (Nowell) did bear the whole charges of the ex-
hibition of six of her majesty's said scholars, in-
creased the stipends of the said scholars and
usher, and built a fair schoolhouse of stone in her
majesty's name, with lodging for the scholars and
usher, to the value of the whole above noted of
2,000 marks (£1,333 6s. 8d.), and above, and is
still charged with his brother's fatherless children
at the Universities. Upon the late humble suit
made to the lords of her majesty's most honourable
privy council about the beginning of May last the
hearing of the cause was by them committed to my
lord the chief -justice, and to Mr. Attornoy-
General, who have the 17th of this February re-
turned their opinion that the said 8 score and 8
quarters of malt, with the arrearages, are by law to

Oldham and Nsiohboubhood. 71

be paid upon the land holden by the said,
leaae. But for that [a] suit in law for the
same will belong, troublesome, and chargeable to the
the principal and fellows of the said poor college,
being deeply indebted to the said dean, who, that-
that her majesty's school, so lately by her graciously
founded, wherein near two hundred scholars are-
tauffht, should not be broken up, and her 13 poor
scholars, for lack of their exhibition, be enforced to>
forsake the Universities; the said dean hath by
the space of these three years lent unto them^
wherewith to discharge all the premises, and is.
himself thereby so impoverished that he ccm help-
them no longer. And for that if they should by
law have judgment against Sir Edward Hobie, it<
will be hard to get that which is due to him, being
of her majesty's household, and for other causes,
your said suppliants humbly beseech your
honourable lordship, whom it hath pleased
God to appoint the chief judge under her
majesty in matters of law and cooscience
in this realm of England, to help that'
order may be taken by the most honourable-
council, that Sir Edward Hobie may pay the rents-
due by his lease, and keep other covenants of the
same, and yield rifi;ht unto your said suppliants,,
whereby they all shall be bound to pray for your
honourtkble lordship unto Almighty God, who has.
the same, and all yours always in his most blessed
keeping. — Your honourable lordship's humble-
suppliants (signed). Alexander Nowell, Richard
Harris, principal ; Thomas Singleton, vice-princi-
pal, in the names of all the rest." G Shaw.

(Continued, J

[3S.] Chubghes in the Oldham Rural

Deanery.

hey chapel or church.

TluB chapel, dedicated to St. John the Baptists
WM built by the liberality of the people of Lees,,
who were at great inconvenience, their parish
church being at Asbton. Most of the contribu-
tions were given in kind, viz. , in stone, lime, and
sand, the farmers lending their horses and carts to*

72 Notes and Glbanings.

ead the thmfl;8 required, whilst the masons, car-
penters, joiners, and labourers all gave their ser-
vices. Seats in the church were allotted to the
contributors to the building in proportion to the
amount given. Whilst the building was in pro-
gress the parishioners of Oldham and Saddle-
worth living near Lees felt that if they
could share in the ministrations of the Lees
chapel it would be a great benefit to them. So,
though built by the Lees people, an arrange-
ment was made by which it became a chapel of ease
for those who were at too great a distance from the
Churches of Ashton, Oldham, and Saddleworth^
and fees were paid to all three for baptisms, mar-
riages, and burials. The building thus erected was
a small, plain, stone structure, of four windows in
length, with a cupola chancel at the east end. It.
was consecrated by Bishop Peploe, of Chester, in
the year 1743, the patronage being vested in the
B>ector of Ashton, The first marriage entered in
the register is dated September 6th, 1743. But
some dispute occuring about fees between the three
churches, no marriaare was celebrated at Hey Chapel
from September 30th, 1753, to November 28th,
1860. The resister of baptisms begins on May 29th»
1743, and that of burials on December 18th, 1744,
and these have gone on without a break ever since.
About 1820 a new burial ground, a short distance
from the chapel, was consecrated. In 1791 an
addition to the east end of the chapel was made,
of two windows in length ; and a similar addition
has been made by the Rev. G. D. Grundy, at the
west end, the buildinfi; now being eight windows in
length. From 1868 to 1872 funds were raised, and
the interior of the building was entirely renovated,
and a new roof put on. Tlie cost of these altera-
tions, &c., was defrayed by subscriptions raised
from — Ist, those who liad sittings in the church ;
2nd, the owners of graves ; and 3rd, those whose
children attend the school. From this limited
number upwards of £2,500 was raised. The
interior of the church is now very neat and hand-
some (a detailed description of i^^hioh is deferred
till a brief account has been given of all the

OLBfiAM AHm NsiCHaBOCBHOOD. 73

«hiirches in Oldham and neighbourhood).

The Rev, 6. B. Grundy, M.A., is the present
▼icar, and has ministered here nearly 48 years.
He is the fourth holder of the living, the first in-
cumbent being the* Rev. Richard Hopwood, the
■aeoond the Rev. — . Becket, and the third the Rev.
William Winter, who was «l8o incumbent of St.
Peter's, Oldham, Mr. Mattiusoa being his curate at
fiey. It is worthy of notice that in all the altera-
tioqs, &c., to the chapel, and the building of a com-
modious and handsome vicarage, the expense has all
been defrayed by the parishioners. This chapel at
fiey is now become the Hey Parish Church, and is
included in the rural deanery of Oldbam, and has
now no connection with Ashton except that the
rector of Ashton is stiU the patron.

Wemeth. Jno. fioLLiNHSAD.

QUEET.

[36.] Rev. Richard Dzan, of Middleton. —

I should be glad if you could assist me in obtaining

Bome information about the Rev. Richard Dean^ of

Middleton, who is known to local book collectors as

the author of '*An Essay on the Future Life of

Brutes," published at Manchester, in 1767. He

was born, I believe, at Kirkby-in-Craven, about

1727, and held curacies at Royton and Middleton,

«nd was master of the Middleton Grammar School.

What were the dates of his sppointmc^nts to these

places ?. I have the date of his death as 8th

February, 1778, but Carlisle, in his ''Endowed

Grammar Schools" (1818, i., 707), sUtes that he

was buried at Middleton, on 10th January, 17^0,

Which is correct ? Dean's essay was answered in

1769 by J. Rothwell, master of the Blackrod

<xrammar School, in '''A Letter to the Rev. Mr.

Beauij of Middleton, occasioned by reading his

£88ay on the Future Life of Brutes."

C. W. Stn^ON.

74 Notes and Gleanings.

JKatttrbas, fLox>tmhtx 6ttf, 1886^

NOTES.

[37.] Reoistebs of Oldham Church.
BaptiBnui 1563.

Rafife whittaker bap. Octob xxi

Elizabeth Langley .... bap. Octob xzvij-

Katherin Ghaderton..bap. Octob ultimo*

Joane mathew bap. Novemb zxviij

James Hale bap. Decern zvij

Henry wiiiterbothoiii\

and Mary brearley j bap. Deer xxj

Katherin Tetlow bap. Deoemb xxviiji

Ann Taylier bap. Januarij i

Margret Say veil bap. Jan iiij

Kogger Taylier bap. Jan xj

James Shawe and\

Katherin Thorpe .^j bap. Jan xiz

Edward Ogden bap. Jan xx

Elizabeth Hartley bap. Jan xxvj

James Leeze and\

KatherinTaylier.. jbap. Jan xxviij*

John Kershaw bap. Jan xxx

Steaven brearlei bap. ffeb viij

Nicholas Smethurste •• bap. ffeb xxvix

Renold Whittaker bap. march j

JohnNeeld bap. marcij iii|

Ann whittaker bap. marcij ix

Georg Ogden .bap. march iz

John back bap. marcij zv.

Thomas Melior bap. March zvj

Allice Leeze bap. marcij zxij

Ann Hobkin bap. marcij xxiiij^

Grace haslom bap. march xxvj

Richard Taylier bap. marcij xxvij

Joane werraii bap. marcij zzviij^

Raffe whittaker bap. marcij zzz

John Halle bap. April! zzj

Edmund Winterbothombap. maij j

Katherin Henthom ••bap. maij iz

Ali:eUK<Un bap. maij ziitj

Ann Ttu-iitir ••bap. maij zix

Edward Aaleton bap. maij zix

Oldham and Neiohboubhood 75

Msrgret Taylier bap. may xxv

Margret Cocke bap. Junij xzvj

Elizabeth Neeld bap. Jnlij iiij

Alice Taylier bap. Julij vij

Ann Sondififorth bap. Julij zvi j

AnnRaydes bap. July xviij

Raffe butterworth . . . .bap. July xxviij

Mary Greave bap. July xxx

Richard mathew ....bap. August viij

Elizabeth, daughter "^

of the Mylner of j-bap. Aug xv

Crompton Mylne J

Elizabeth Cudworth...bap. Aug xxj

Isabell Howarde bap. Augustij xxx

Henry Blaclow bap. Sep xxvi j

Richard Ogden bap. Octob xv

Henry Smethurate ...bap. Octo xxvj

Jane Garsyd bap. Octob xx

Anno 1563. Burials xxx.

John Coup sepultus Octobris xxviij

Elizabeth Coup sep. Octob xxx

Margaret whittaker ...Sep. Nov xiiij

Ann Ogden sep. novemb xx

Roggerwalker j ^^^ xj

JaneLinthevrt j '^

Georg heap ••...•• sep. Deer xv

Anthony Hilton sep. Deer xxiiij

Elizabeth Cudworth.. sep. Dec xxvth

JohnRobart sep. Jan x

Allex neeld and Anne\

Cleaton jsep. Jan xxuij

Alice uxor Jo: brearley sep. ffeb, xiUj

Luce uxor ThoiMellor sep. Aprill iiij

Margery Cocker sep. Aprill xxv

Jamss brearley sep. maij v

Lawrance Hilton sep. maij vij

Jo. Whittaker sep. maij ix

Katterin Stocke sep. maij xj

will Taylier sep. maij xxviij

Tho. Tetiow sep. maij xxxj

Jane bexwicke sep. Juij xxx

Hen. whittaker sep. Julij vj

76 Notes and Gleanings;

Raffepristley sep. Julij x

AqdU smyth sep. Jaly xiij

Elizabeth brearley sep. Aug iiij

Elizabeth Taylier sep. Aug viij

Katt stocke • .sep. Aug xv

Jane wolffenden sep. Aug xzix

Anne whitehead sep. Sep xiij

Baptisms Anno 1564.

Thomas Mylnes bap. Octobris xxvi

Martin Mellor *|

Elizabeth Newton .,1, r\ i. \ '

John Cocker f '"'P- OeMnu kvuj

John Street j

John Linthwett bap. Decembri^ ix

John Lees bap. Decemb xv

Emy nn Dawson bap. Januarij xx v

Robart Jacson bap. fifebruarij xj

James Brearley bap. feb xxiiij

Elizabeth Brearley . . bap. marcij v

Ann Halle bap. marche xiij

Peeter Bexwicke bap. marsij xx

Jane Bexwicke bap. Aprillis vij

AUice whittaker ....bap. Aprillis viij

Katherin Stocke .....bap. Aprill xx

Robart Taylior bap, Aprill xxiiij

Elizabeth Norman bap. April x x v j

JohQ Walker bap. Maij iiij

Ann Whittaker bapv Maij xxj

Robart houlden bap. Junij j

ffrancis Clegg bap. J unij xij

James Halkard bap. Junij * xviij

Thomas Tetlo w bap. J li j vij

'Peeter Turnar bap. Julij x

Edmund Wolsencrofte. bap. Julij xij

Elizabeth Grene bap. JuUij xxij

James Haslom bap. Julij xxv

Thomas whittaker. . . .bap. Julij xxx

Margrett Turner ....bap. Julj xxxj

Raffe wy Id bap. August! j vij

John Kershaw bap. Augustij xxv

John Langlcy bap. Augustij xxix

John Cud worth bap. Septembris j

Grace Mathew bnp. Sept iiij

Oldham and Neighboxtehood.

Jobn Grene bap. Sept

Raffe Coup i, o .

Jane Halle T^P" ^ept

Margery e wylde bap. Sep

John Marsland ....... bap. Novemb

Bobart Hee and Law- 1

rence Taylier .... j bap. Octobiis

Anthony Op(den bap. Octobris

Georfre whithead bap. Octobris

KathLrin^TSL*;;}^*P- ^°*^^"«

Anno 1564. Burials xxx.

Thomas Whitle sep. octob

Elizabeth Stock sep. Sept

Elizabeth winter-

bothom sep. nov

JaneOgden sep. novemb

WiU Whitle sep. Dec

Elizabeth Heap sep. Deer

Elizabeth brearley sep. Jan

Renold whitworth sep. Jan

Annis worrall sep Jan

Edmnnd Mathew . . . .sep. Jan

Allice Collinson sep. ffeb

Joshue mellor sep. feb

Georg Wild sep. feb

Katt: ox. Tho Cellon . . sep. marcij

James Hall and\

margret Jackson /sept, marcij

Jo : Grompton sep. marcij

Joane Coupe sep. marcij

Elizabeth Randes . . . #. sep. marcij

Ann Travis sep. marcij

Jane uxor. Rioh:\

Taylier j sep. marcij

Jo: Tetlow sep. Aprill

Edward Ogden sep. Apprill

Edmund Thorp sep. Aprill

Mari^rotuxor. nicho-^

lashopwood jsep. Apr

Rob Leez and Jane^
Taylier /sep. Aprill

xvij

• • • «

XXlllj

• •

• • • •

lllj

• • •

xnj
xix

XXU]

xxviii

• • •

xxx

xix

« • •

3fj

« •

XIJ

xxx

xviij

V
X

.. .

XVUJ
XX

zxvj
xxvij

• • • •

iiij

• • •

"VUJ

XV
XXV

zxvj

78 NoTKS AND Gleanings.

Richard Hall sep. maij iiij

Katt: nxor Baffe Tay-

lier sep. maij yi

James Neeld ....••... Sep. maij x

willwilde sep. maij xx

G. Shaw,

j&aturbaB, |lot>ember 13tl), 1886.

NOTES.

138.] AsHTON Parish Church. — ^The Wakes at
Lees-cumHey, Lydgate, &c.

The Parish Church of Ashton-under-Lyne is of
very remote foundatioD, its origin being lost in the
•obscurity of antiquity. There is presumptive evi-
dence, if not good ground, for supposing that a
<3hurch existed here in Anglo-Saxon times. The
present edifice is, and has been from time im-
memorial, dedicated to St. Michael the Archangel,
and is, doubtless, the church (or its successor) of
that name alluded to in the Doomsday Survey
(1066-86) of this locality. The earliest dis-
trict mention of " Ecclesia Aston " occurs in
1291, when it was included in the return of livings
taken by order of the Pope. Though originally but
« chapel-of -ease to Manchester Parish Church, and the
patronage enjoyed by the lords of Manchester until
1427, yet five years before that date, viz., in 1422,
the lord of the manor of Ashton-under-Lyne dis-
posed of the seat accommodation. Distinct forms,
if not seats, or places on them, were assigned to
distinct parishioners — women only, the men,
denied of such luxury or indulgence, having in
turns to stand or kneel, or perhaps to sit, in the
rushes with which the floor would be strewn.
Around the present pile, rebuilt though it be,
there lingers the memory of many centuries of
devotion. To this one common fold for twenty
generations the parishioners have resorted for
worship on each recurring Sabbath. At a period
not very remote, along the narrow, rugged lanes
and tree-shaded footpaths, whish converged at

Oldham and Neighboubhood. 79

the Parish Gharch, the cottager and hii
wife trudged on foot, whilst the leaseholding
farmer and his dame **rode double,'' or, in
other words, his helpmate sat oo the ''pillion**
or shiffed-seat, behind her liege lord. In the same
state they rode to the market. Horsing-blocks —
stones or steps to mount by — were erected in the
various farmyards and attached to the village inns.
A few remain as relics, long after their use has
passed away. Ashton Wakes was formerly held
on the third Sunday in September. About four
score years ago there were five rush -bearings*
•annually to the Parish Church, namely, from
Ashton town, Audenshaw, Hooley Hill, Hurst, and
Knott Lanes, The first chapel-of-ease erected in
the parish was St. John's, Lees (or Lees-cum-Hey),
-oonsecrated in June, 1744; then followed St.
-George's, Mossley, erected in 1755 ; and twenty -one
years later, St. George's, Cocker Hill, cUiaa Castle
Hill. Lydgate Chapel, dedicated to St. Anne, was
built in 1788, on the top of a steep, bleak
hill, in the township of Saddleworth. llie
following are a few particulars relative to the
Wakes at Lydgate, held on the first Sunday
after the 15th of August, and Lees-cum-Hey, cele-
brated on the first Saturday in August and several
following days. A few years ago Lydgate Wakes
was described as consisting of *' an old woman and
part of a barrowful of nuts !" Latterly, however,
things have grown worse, and, in the style of Dio-
genes, it has been necessary to seek it with a lan-
tern and candle. But it was not once so. Half a
century ago, beside the chapelyard lay a fl[rassy
plot of land, well known as the village green. It
liad an area of about a Lancashire acre, and at the
Wakes was the scene of the annual bull bait.
Then, whilst a concourse of the more venturesome
folk thronged around the dogs and bull, the more
timorous sat on the roof of the bonehouse watching
the progress of the fray. It these latter were
safe from unpleasant effects in case, as not
nnlrequently happened, the enraged Taurus broke
loose from the stake, on the other hand, they de-
barred themselves from personal participation in

80 NOTEH AND GlJEANIN(iS»

the phase of sensational fun and exoltement^

alluded to in an old Derbyshire song —

The bull ^ve a rush and a very tfresit roar ;

He tossed up the dogs aud the folks tumbled o'er.

Although the first parliamentary legislation wa»
ineffectual in putting down the batins; of various
animals, yet in 1835 an act was passed which, sup-
ported by the growing intelligence of the conntiyy
settled the matter for ever. • The last bull bait held
at Lydgate took place about thirty -seven years ago^
when William Kadcliffe, better known as *<Owd
Billy Potbo," a small farmer at Quick Edge, was
the constable for that portion of the township of
Saddle worth. Mr. Radcliffe was the superinten-
dent of the Springhead Congregationalist Sunday
School, and had the courage to summon a good
many persons who had been engaged in the
** sport." A local rhymster, Edmund Buckley,
who lived near Ijees, wrote a song, of which the
followinc; stanzas are all that his son James re*
members : —

Ltdgate Bull-bait*

Last August, on a certain day.
To Lydgate Hill I took my way ;
With Ned and Sam I did bgree
That Lydgate Wakes we'd go and see.
As soon as e'er I entered the town
A man the Wakes was orying down ;
'Twas silenoe all, both great and small.
To hear the song of " Potten Bkll."^
When " Potten Ball " began his song.
He warning save to old and young.
And said, ** Ah 1 drunkards, be aware.
And ye that lie, game, cheat, and swear*
For ne'er of late has pastime been
But you've assembled on our green
With cocks to fight, or trails to run.
Or bulls to bait, for to cause fun.

Can any reader supply the remainder, which Is
probably worth preserving. Lees and Hey hmd
also their annual bull-baits. The last took place
on the 14th and 15th September, 1835, in a eroft
opposite Mr. Taylor's mill, in Hey-lane. The bull
was the property of Messrs. Thomas and Samuel
Andrew, of Newton Moor, near Hyde. The
animal, which was hired oat for the purpose, had
its feet shod like a horse to assist it in travelling,
and had its horns tipped to prevent, or, at ai^
rate, to lessen the effects of goring. Per

Oldham and Neighbourhood. 81

parenthesis : At Mossley the Wakes used also
to bear a front place in the popular calendar,
and was held on the last Sunday in July. Folks
yet remember a ** bull-ring" put down in the heart
of Mossley. A singular combination of incongm-
ods events once took place at Further Birches
Farm, near Lees, the occupants of which sold
"whistle," a la Tom-and-Jerry, under what was
thto styled an October license. There, on the same
day, they had a funeral, a rushcart, and a bull-
bait * The village of Liees sometimes furnished a
eonple of rush bearings to Hey Chapel. Garden
lilies are yet known in the locality as *' rushcart
flowers," from their former use in decorating the
mikbearins^s. The late William Bardsley, of
Farther Birches Farm, frequently built rushcarts,
and was not a little proud of his skill as a '* whip-
cracker." His son, Mr. James Bardsley, the
enterprising farmer of Nearer and Further Birches^
niherited his ability, and frequently earned half a
guinea for building a rushcart, until he declined
all such offers. It is pleasing that grinning through
horse collars, thick porridge eating matches, and
some other sports and pastimes more or less repul-
sive, have disappeared under the pressure of public
opinion. And, in like manner, the time is not far
distant, it is hoped, when working men will find
some nobler enjoyment and more rational employ-
ment for the Sabbath forenoon than lounging on
lArd Stamford's new road, leading muzzled dogs in
fancy slips and carefully covered up with coloured
dolhs of a finer make and texture than the ooats
on their masters* backs. Happy will be the period
when the contemptible enjoyments (?) of dog racing
and pigeon flying have shared the same fate as the
amusements before alluded to.

The above article, written by the late John
HigBon, in the year 1870, should, I think, find a

place in the *' liocal Olcaoings."

T. W.Hand.
[39.] Seats is Saddleworth Church.
Baring the time of the Commonwealth many

^yalists anil EpisoopuUans were deprived of their

Baats in the parish churches, an I those who had

82 NOTIH A^fD GLKA^INOb.

taken the vacant seats in many cases refused to-
give them back to their original holders. Somo^
dispute of this nature took place at Saddleworth^
and the matter being referred to Lord Hyron, he
gave the following deed, which seems to have-
settled the matter. The following copy of a deed
is in the possession of a descendant of one of the-
parties interested : —

*'I, Richard Byron, Baron of Rathdale, do

hereby license and allow Squire Andrew and Joh&^

Whitehead, both of Saddle worth, in the county of

York, to have their several seats or stalls in the*

Quire of the Church of Saddleworth aforesaid, ia

the several places where they have been acciu-

tomed to sit the years past. Given at Newsteadv

the 23rd day of October, Anno Domi. 1668.

•' Bybon."

This Richard was the second Lord Byron, bat •
bow comes it that he had any right or power te*
settle such a matter? Can anyone throw light on
this question ? Jno. Hollinhsad.

Wemeth.

JSaturl^aB, ^loi^ember SOtI), 1886,
NOTES,

[40.] MiDDLKTON GRAMMAB SOfiOOL.

(Continued.)

Tliat Dean Kowell had the interest of Middle* -
ton School greatly at heart we can fully gather
froim the following Notes in the Townley Nowell
MSS. The spending of the money of Robert
Nowell, brother of Dean Nowell, whose exeoa-
tor the Dean was. Edited by Dr. Alexander
Grosart : —

p. 240.

pd to my Lorde Cheney, for oerten L^indes'V
ciJled Vpbury in Kent to the use of the I U
College of Brasynnose the xxijth of Deoem^ | vocec -
ber Ao 1573 ccccccccc j

The following Note, by Dr. Grosart, is very ex-
planatory :—

*^ Lord Cheney " and infra. Reduced to plainer-
English the item would read : '* Paid to my Lord
Cheney for certain lands called Upbury in Kent^

Oldham a!vi> Nsiguboubhood. 83

within the parish of Qininp^ham to the use of the

College of Brasettose the 22nd clay of December

1573, £900." Collate this wHh the statement of

Dean No well in his letter to Lord Barghley already

mentioned, which runs: "I purchased in reversion

of the Lord Cheney the manor of Uppebury, with

the parsonage of Gyllyngham, in the County of

Kente, which is worth one hundreth marks or

more yerely ; for the which I payed my Lord ixc^t

(£900) and x^» (£10) with a purse of x\s, to my

ladie for her consent " Thus the Upbnry estate,

with Gillingham advowson, cost the Nowell trust

£912 sterline:, which would equal at least £9,000

of our money, for the endowment of Scholarshipft

at Brasenose.

p. 242.
Mem. that my mr dide dischardge and paye all

thinges for the College of Brasjrnnose and of the

sohole mr and vsheres wagges of Middleton Schole

untell the Annunciation of the blessed virgin St.

Marie, wch was in the year of our Lord God A

thousande fyve hundrethe threescore and fower-

tenn vnto Mr. Leeche and vnto the sohol^maltter^

and vsher of mydleton schole as by their several!

acquaintances appereth.

Itm my mr hath allsoe sente more'
by mr Docter humefrey the some
v/t. at the f caste of St Michael Ao.
167a

and my mr. sente the scholemaisters & ushers of
niedleton scole accquitances by Mr. flowed princi-
pall of Jesus College to Oxforde the which schole-
maisters & ushers wagges due at michaelmasAo
1574. my mr. sent by mr. Banester of Altam the
xxth of October Ao 1574.

Memorandum, receyved of mr Archdeacon wattes
the xxvj-th of Aprell Ao 1575. : the some of xli
which said some was receyvid of the Deane ft
Chapter of ^powles, to the use of the Principally
fellows & Scholleres, of Braysynnooae college in
Oxforde, and receyvid more the same tyme of
hyme the some of rlvjs, viijf£. for the moytie of
Boy ton hall, wherof paid of the same to the schol-
maister of the Queues majesties free sohole of

• St. Paul's,

)re"\

yxs

84 KoTKs AND Gleaxinos.

myddleton. for his half yeares stypende due at the
Annunciation of the blessed virgin Saint marie
laste paste vjZt xiij^. iii}d, and iijli. vjs, viije^. to
the usher due at the same tyme, and gyven more
to the said usher of free will xiij8. iiijcZ. and so re-
maines in my mr. hands xxziij^. ui}d, of the sum
recepd.

A 8ide note: — "this money was sent by Jolin
worstoncrofte of Burie. Cotton man

p 168.
Too one Nichols hellewell of^
mydletoD sutter (suitor) to be of
Brasyn noose the xixth of maye Ac
1576 ,

Too one scofylde (Schofield) of thel
same schole of raydleton when my y-xs
mr. wasin Sussex Ao 1575 J

p 242.
To one Edmunde blnmley Vsher
of Medleton Suhole the xxth of Maye yxs
Ao 1574 ^

p248.
Too one Arthure hoppwood poore^
^choUar of mid le ton schole when he
went to Oxforde the xth of novem-
brisl580

p 250, side note.

A note of certen scholers of Brasynnose which

hath had money sethence the foundation of mydle-

ton schole.

. Too one Willm Kirkam a poore^

schoUer of Brasyn noose coUedge in I «

Oxforde the viijth of martch Ao r"^*- "^^^

1573 J

ToooneJtobteJacksonnethe xxijthl... .... ,

of november Ao 1573 J "J** "*J"-

Too one Richard wild of Braysynl
noose college the xxxth of martch !- X8.

1574 j

& several others.
, (Continued.) G. Shaw.

[41.] Churohes in Oldham.

(1.) oldham church (st. mary).

First mention of a clergyman, 25th February. 1312

The first mention of a church 1406

Oldham and Neiohbourhood. 85

An addition made by Sir Ralph Langley,

rector of Prestwich 1476

The old church pulled down 1827

Present church opened 1830

(2.) HOLY TRINITT, SHAW.

A chapel existed at Shaw 1515

Enlarged 1732

Rebuilt 1739

The present church consecrated 5th June . . 1871

(3.) ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST, HEY.

Consecrated 1743

(4.) ST. PAUL, ROYTON.

Consecrated 1st July 1757

(5.) ST. PETER, OLDHAM.

Consecrated 2nd June 1768

(6.) ST. MARGARET, HOLLINWOOD.

Consecrated 8th July 1769

Rebuilt 1879

Consecrated 29th September 1879

(7.) ST. JAMES, GREENACRES MOOR.

Consecrated 19th September 182€l

(8.) CHRIST CHURCH, GLODWICK.

Consecrated 20th November 1844

(9.) ST. JOHN, CHADDERTON.

Consecrated 27th October 1845

(10.) HOLY TRINITY, WATERHEAD.

Consecrated 5th July 1847

(11.) ST. JAMES, EAST OROMPTON.

Consecrated 1847

(12.) HOLY TRINITY, COLDHURST.

Consecrated 12th February 1848

(13.) ST. THOMAS, LEESFIELD.

Consecrated 2l8t June 1848

(14.) ST. THOMAS, WERNETH.

Consecrated 21st November 1855

(15.) ST. MATTHEW, CHADDERTON.

A temporary wooden building, licensed 1848,
burned down — present church consecrated,
9thNovember 1857

(16.) CHRIST CHURCH, CHADDERTON.

Consecrated 5th December 1870

86 NoTJcs AkD Gleanings.

(17.) aV. TBOHAS, MOORSIDE.

Conseorated 20th April 1872

(18.) 8T. AKDBKW, WEST HILI..

Consecrated 9th May 1873

(19.) ST. STEPHEN AND ALL MARTYK8,
LOWBBMOOR.

Consecrated 14th May 1875

(20.) ST. MARK, GLODWICK.

Consecrated 14th June 1876

(21.) ST. MABK, HETSIDE.

Consecrated 15th May 1878

(22.) ST. MARY, HIGH OBOMPTON.

Consecrated 22nd Angnat 1878

(23.) ST. PAUL, ASHTON-ROAD.

Consecrated 26th May 1880

A church, dedicated to St Luke, is being built ;
a district has been assigned to it out of St.
Matthew, Chadderton,

A new church is proposed to be built at North-
moor, ooc of the parish ot St. Mary.

Of these 23 churches, all are in the rural deanery
of Oldham, 17 are in the borough, and all of them
are in the parliamentary borough of Oldham, and,
with the exception of St. John's, Hey, and part of
Leeefield, all are in the parish of Prestwick.

Werneth. John Hollinhbad.

[42.] Nan 0* Dingle's Clog and Th* Thunder
Bolt. — VV. Booth, of Oldham, writing to a Man-
chester contemporary last week, has the following
note : — ** The young Oldhamers, and for the matter
of that the old ones too, who were thought too good
to go to the races in Whit « week, used to be treated
to a round in 'th' *ould College' (Chetham
College, Mancheater).. The first time I was there,
2I0W some fifty years ago, I remember how much I
admired the long-robed, clean-looking, bareheaded
lad who took our party round,- and how we wondered
at his monotonous ' gift of the gab ' as he hurried
us along the library and museum, open-eyed, open-
•eared, and some of us, I have no doubt, open-
mottthed, unable to see half of the wonderful
things he was showing. However, I have a dim
recollection of seeing what were called Oliver Crom-
weirs boots, which had been long strangers to

Oldham and NEiGnBOCRHooi). 87

Benry'i (?) blacking. But what were they to the
ironder of ' Nan-of-the-Dingle's doi; split on her
^fooi by lightning.' Ann lived in the Dingle which
vmB between Sholver Moor and Shaw. She had
a narrow escape of life, one of her clogs being
split up on her foot by a flash of lightning.
Ttda was thought so much of at the time
tiiat the broken clog was taken to the College
nniseum to be exhibited among the other curio-
dties. And if Cromwell is famous in British,
Old Ann is no less so in local history. She
lias leftns a saying, which is now invariably said
when any elderly couple get married. A neighbour
going to tell her— as a secret, of course — ^that two of
Iwr friends who were well advanced in years were
about to be married, Nan, in a tone of profound
^hiloflophv, exclaimed, * Well, its nobbut what we
aU have to do.* However, Ann falsified her own
proverb, for she didn't, but died a spinster at a good
loond age. The house, one of two small cottages,
in which she lived, is now pulled down."

[43.] If readers of your " Local Gleanings " have
any books, pamphlets, old almanacks, election
squibs. Acts of Parliament, &o., relating to Old*
bam and district, I should be glad to receive them
for the Reference Library, where such publications
should find a home. T. W. Hand.

QUERIES.

[44. J Oldham Sunday Schools.— On October
6tti, 1838, a jubilee of Sunday schools was ^eld in
Oldham. As O. Neil, in his history of Sunday
aehools, says nothing of this, will some of your
readers give us some particulars ?

J. HOLLINHEAD.

J&aturJtes, Howmher 27tl), 1886.

NOTES.

[45.] MiDDLBTON Gbammab School.

(Continued.)

a The endowment supposed to be sufficient for the

free instruction of 200 scholars in Middleton School,

and for the maintenance of the thirteen exhibi

a Baines' Hist. Lane., toI. i., p, 472.

88 NoTifis AND Gleanikoi^.

tioDB from that school to Brazenose College, eith^
from some defect in the foundation of the school or
in the administration of its property, has sank to
80 low an ebb that in the claims for exemptions
made under the Property Tax Act in 1816
the income of Middletou School is retunhed
at the very diminutive amount of £24 138;
4d. a year, exclusive probably of the schoolhoose
and the field, comprising one acre of castomary
measure, in which it stands. To supply the defi-
ciency in the stipend, the office of liead master of
this school is usually conferred by the principal an4
fellows of Brazenose College, who are incorporated
governors of the school,- upon the curate of the
parish church, and the usher's salary is augmented
by receiving into the scliool the boys and girls of
the parish, who pay for their education twopence
per week. There were in 1866-7 an average of
forty boys and girls in the school, all on the foun-
dation, and all paying a capitation of £2 2a,
yearly. The education comprises the nsual
giammar school curriculum, Latin, Greek,
Ac, taught free of charge; to which are added
the requisites for a fair English and commercial
edacation. The master's stipend is small, con-
sidering that he is required to be a member of a
university. The commissioners for charities, in
their 19th report, represent that the principal and
fellows of Brazenose College, Oxford, beinc; the
trustees of Middleton School, tlrat institution does
not fall within the scope of their inquiries. This
ia much to be regretted, as it has long been snr-
mlsed that an equitable portion of the funds due to
tills school is not apportioned to its use. The
somtinising investigation of the commissioners, and
the publication of the result of the inquiries, would
donbtless have set these conjectures at rest, either
bj showing that they are ill-grounded, or by
procuring for the institution that income which is
justly its due.

h MASTERS OF MIDDLETON GRAMMAR SCHOOL.

Edmund Ireland, schoolmaster, buried May 12tfas

1574.

h Baines' MSS., voL xiii., p, 191.

0LDHA3I AND NEIGHBOURHOOD

Edmuod Blnmley, usher, had a sum of X^. sent*
him by Dean Nowell, 20th May, 1674.

Mr. Robert Walkden, curate and schoolmaster,
1623. The name occurs in 1591-97 and 1613,
when he is styled curate. He became rector
of Radcliffe, and was instituted May 24th,
1624.

Mr. John Walkden (perhaps son of the last, and
born 1595), curate, 1636, buried 1st October,
1642 ; curate and usher.

Mr. Richard Jones, usher, living 1663-66.

Mr. Richard Richardson, schoolmaster, living
1662-65, and was buried in 1667.

Mr. John Bradshaw, writing master, occurs 1663.

Rev. John Simpson, curate and schoolmaster,,
buried 1671.

Mr. Robert Hampson, usher, living 1687.

Rev. John Halliwell, M.A., curate, 1696 ; died
curate and schoolmaster of Dean NowellV
* School, in Middleton, and buried 27th Decem-
ber, 1703, in the rector's chapel, within the
church.

Rev. William La^vson, curate and schoolmaster,
1716-1728 ; was instituted rector of Radcliffe
July 14th, 1724, and died 1757. He left £10-^
to the poor of Radcliffe to be laid out in land

Mr. Thomas Fielden, usher, 1727.

Rer. Richard Dean, cnrate and schoolmaster of
Middleton, buried 10th January, 1778. He
was the author of an ingenious essay on an
unpromising subject, ''The Future Life of-
Brutes," introduced with observations upoir
"Evil, Its Nature and Origin." Printed at-
Manchester, 1767.

Rev. (lames Archer, curate and schoolmaster, 1778-
1829, when he became rector of the parish, and
died in 1832 ; buried May 16th, aged 86 years.

Mr. James Hey wood, under master.

Rev. Robert C. W. Wilkinson, M.A., cnrate and
schoolmaster, 1839; died July 30th, 1851,

90 Notes and Gleanings.

aged 52 years.

Mr. William Kenyon Hilton, 20 years second
master, afterwards high master ; died Novem-
ber 2l8t, 1853, aged 47 years.

Bev. James Jelly, M.A., of Trinity College, Gam-
bridge, head master ; died October 11th, 1879.

Mr. James Osborne Jelly (son of the last), M. A.,
late Demy of Magdalen College, Oxford, pre-
sent head master.

Mr. T. Tighe, second master.

The above list is, I fear, very imperfect. There
are no records kept at Middleton, nor could they
famish any particulars from Oxford.

Amongst the scholars of Middleton Grammar
School we find a notable one, whose name is re-
corded in the pages of history. I refer to Judge
Bradshawe, of Marple, who sat as president at tiie
trial of King Charles I, His baptism is recorded is
the registers of Stockport Parish Church —
1602 — Dec. 10. John sonne of Henrye Bradshawe
of Marple baptized.

At a later date some zealous Boyalist has written
the word " traitor."

His signature is the first on the death warrant of
ihe unfortunate Charles. The following extract
from his will, printed in >full in Karwaker'a
" History of East Cheshire," vol. ii., page 73, refera
to the school : —

" Then vpon this further trust that they the sud

Devisees shall raise theise severall summes foUowe-

ing, to witt, ^...m

the sunrnie of seaven hundred poundes to buy an

■annuetyeformainetaineing a free schoole in Marple

in Cheshire*, the same to be layed out as my said

Trustees and my Brother Henry shall thinke fittest

for effecting such my purpose; the summe of five

hundred poundes for the increasing of the constant

waives payd to the Schoolemaster and Usher of

Bunburie Schoole in Cheshire, and the like

• NotehyMr, Eortoalcer .—Owing to Bradshawe's estates
1>eiiig confiscated after his death, this and other legacies
'were nerer paid.

Oldham and Neighbourhood. 91

«Qmme of five hundred ponndea for amendiDg

the wages of the Schoolemaster and Usher of

Midleton Schoole in Lancashire (in which two

Scfaooles of Bunbury and Midleton I had part of

my education and returne this as part of my

thankfull acknowledgement for the same) those

^wo severall summes of five hundred pound a peece

to be layd out in buyeing annueties for the res-

peotive purposes aforesaid and settling the same as

my said trustees vpon advice with honest men

liveing neere the said severall places shall judge

most expedient."

(Continued,) G. Shaw.

^ttirll«8, December U\), 1886»

NOTES.

{46] Notes on the Etymologies in the Town-
ship OF Oldham.

Through the kindness of Mrs. Higson I am
•enabled to send the following contribution, written
•by the late Mr. John Higson. T. W. Hand.

As might be expected, many of the older
designations of the farmsteads and fields, the
hamlets and estates, in the township of Oldham
and its three semi-dependent townships are of
Anglo-Saxon origin. Still there are a few sur-
viving amongst them which have evidently a British
origin. The most ancient names, of course, refer to
fixed objects in natural scenery and to descriptions
of property rather than to epithets pointing out
fixed abodes, whether isolated or in villages. Of
•aggregations of dwellings the Britons knew little.
Turning to the supposed Celtic names, lot us
take that of the river Medlock. The Rev. J.
Bavies, in his interesting remarks on the " Races
•of Lancashire," derives it from the Welsh
■Tined, complete, full, and Uwch, Gaelic loch,
lake, or pool. The designation of the hamlet of
Sholver is believed to have a similar origin.
Amongst the variations in its orthography appear
Sholgber (A.D. 1291), ChoUer (1311), ScoUer Lane
in viU de Oldham (1312), ShoUer (circa 1434-55)

92 Notes axd Gleanixgs.

and SkoUer (temp. Queen Elizabeth). Mr. Davie9>
deduces its etymology from the Welsh siol (pro-
nounced ahol)^ head, and vawr, meaning great.
Next take VVernelh, of which the earliest ortho-
graphy that we have met with is Vernet {temp^
Edward II., 1307-27), and the only other and later-
variation is Wernith. There is a township o£
Wemeth near Hyde. Butterworth says the Saxoa
name of the former place was doubtless Fern-
heath, acquired from the abundance of fern theii<
growing there. Several places in the country^
have obtained their names from a similar circum-
stance, but the original is preserved in their
present appellations. For instance, Farnworth
near Bolton, Farnworth near Warrington, Fearny-
side near Bolton. Fearnhead near Warrington,
Feme in Little Bowland, Fernhurst near Black-
bum, and Feamyhalgti near Preston. Mr. Bavies,
with greater plausibility than Butterworth, derives
the name of Werneth from the Welsh gwem, a
watery or swampy m«adow, and says the word
also means the ''alder tree," from its preference
of a swampy spot. Taming to the Anglo-Saxon
appellations, we find some of them of very early
orifi'in, two at least, HoUinwood and Higgiushaw,
probably dating from the settlement of the Saxons^
in Lancashire, about the fifth century of the Chris-
tian era. According to the late Mr. Harland,'
HolUnwood may mean not merely the wood of
hollies, but the wood or property of the Holingad,
i.e., the clan or family of Hoel. So Higein-
shaw, if his conjecture be right, denotes the
grove, or the Hsecingas, or, in other words, of the
sons or offspring of Hreck. Turning to the name of
Oldham itself, we find its ortliography has varied
slightly at different periods ; but this has probably
arisen out of the arbitrary way in which the
ancient scribes used to spell local names ; in fact,,
they sometimes used several different modes in the
same legal instrument. In old documents it is.
found written Aldholm (1307-27), Oldom (1387,
1390, 1448, 1450, and 1516), Ouldham (1650), &c.
As holm signifies a water meadow or islet, its ap-
pearance in the first quoted instance must have;

Oldham and Nbighboubhood. 03

•oocorred throngb a clerical error for the affix ham.
Aid and old are slight variations oi EcUd, Anglo -
Saxon, old or ancient. The meaDing of Oldham is,
therefore, the "old 'original' home or habitation of
a married couple." In other words, us ham
literally denotes a single home, or enclosure with
its homestead, the name of the place may be
appropriately rendered *' The old dwelling of the
hnsband-man," the latter epithet to be taken in
its double sense, t.e., with its two different
meanino^s — first, of a house-band, binder, or con-
sort, and, secondly, of a tiller of the soil, now
vaguely termed farmer. The designation of the
** old home " might be applied pre-eminently to the
domicile, or single dwelling, of the first settler, in
•order to distinguish it, so soon as other homes or
locations were formed in the neighbourhood,
cither from natural increase or immigration . These
dependent or independent dwellings, clustering
4uround the old homestead in the shape of a fold, or
hovering near to for protection, shelter, and
support, soon formed a hamlet. Anon this swelled
into the importance of a village, and m suc-
cession became a township, a market town, and
•corporate and parliamentary borough. Into what Old
ham will eventually develope itself time alone can de-
termine. Singularly enough the names of thethreede-
pendent townshipsall end in ''ton,'' which, however,
in its primeval acceptance, signified nothing more
than a fenced place, or enclosed farmstead, and
-did not necessarily imply the existence of any
human occupation or residence. Chadderton, it
is true, was originally written Chadreden, but this
defection from our " ions " is counter-balanced by
the name of one of its hamlets, namely, Fox
denton. Glodwick is an appellation sij^nificant of
early occupation and settlement. First as to the
variations in its orthography. The following is
an imperfect list of diversities gleaned from ancient
records, together with the dates of their occur-
rence i—Glothie (1307-27), Clodyke and Clodick
(1311), Gloditch (1343), Glodlike (1486), Glodyght
(1537), Glodyth and Glodethe (1540), Glodythe
(1547), Glodieth {temp. Queen Elizabeth), Glodick

94 NoTics AND Gleaninoh. .

(1613), Glodith (1613 and 1640), and Gladith (was
date). Its etymolo^ haj not been positively deter-
mined. One of its sons, with pardonable local pride,
conjectured it to havs been named Claudiwick by the
Romans in honour of their Emperor Claudius!
Beyond a triie similarity of sound with its present
name and the once supposed existence of a "barrow"
or grave-mound, which, in the absence of evidence
to the contrary, might have belonged either to
Celt or Saxon, as well as to Homan, tliere is nothing
to support this startling assumption. To be svae,
a Roman road, leading from Mancunium (Mat^ches*
ter) to Cambodunum (Slacke in Yorkshire), is pre-
sumed to have passed through the villas^. The
affix {toick) may be derived from vtctM, Latin ; xyc,
Anglo-Saxon, a street. It seems more likely, how*
ever, to be obtained from trie, Anglo-Saxon, a farm,
habitation, or place of refuge, and to imply some-
thing like the " protected dweUing-place of Glodi,
or G lothi, " probably the first Saxon colonist or settler,
whose name is thus being handed down to distant
posterity. The appellation of Mumps has a
grotesque sound with it. It is the name of an
nnpleasant disorder incidental to childhood. But
in this case the word doubtless signifies a tree
root, or a great piece of knotty wood, and im-
plies the presence of timber when the appellatfon
was first conferred. Lastly, Greenacres has only
a few variations, such as Greenakers Moor (about
1466), Grinacres (sans date), and, according to
Butterworth, Greenheys. This latter term is
evidently a mere local corruption of the true
name. The meaning is simply the *' green fields,''
being derived from grene and tusre, both Anglo
Saxon words— the latter signifying merely a piece
of land, irrespective of its area. Thus, God's Acre
was the name of a churchyard, or, rather, burial
place, no matter what its size or superficial content.
Again, in the Greek agros means a field, which in
Latin is ager ; and hence the origin of our word
agriculture, which in other words means held culture
or field tillage.

Oldham and Neighbourhood. 85

jSaturbas, Petember lltl), 188a.

NOTE S.

[47] Registers op Oldham Church.

Baptisms Anno 1565.

Jsabell Halle bap. Novembris ij

Thomas Ogden bap. novemb ix

John Donkerley bap. nove xii j

Katherin Taylier ....bap. novem xxv

James Taylier bap. novem xxvij

James Uobkine .*. bap. Decembris xvij

Jssabell fiopwood ..l^ T^

Georg wolft'endeu . . /^*P- ^^"^"^ ^^"J

Grace Cooke bap. Decern xxij

Edmund Coocke bap. J aouarij i j

John JacsoQ bap. Januarij iij

Katherin Ashtou ....bap. Jan xix
Jane Ogden aud^, ^

Ann H^lowes .... /^*P- •^^^ ^^

Ann mayall andli^ t

Ann willson / *^P- •^*°- ^^^nj

margret Halle 1 , t

AUiceUgden jbap. Jan. xxx

Ann Hobkin ^

Elizabeth Crompton j-bap. ffebrarij j

and Ann Halle J

Geqrg Buckley bap. ffeb vj

Eliiabeth Lawtun bap. ffeb vij

Ottiwell Bradbent bap. may iij

Myles Sondifforthe ...bap, ffebruarij x

Elizabeth Leezt bap. ffeb x vij

Janebexwicke bap. ffeb xix

Ann brigge bap. ffeb xxij

Annismathew bap. ffeb xxiiij

Grace Greave bap. feb xxv

Bichard Thorpe bap. feb xxvj

Kobart Assheton bap. feb xxviij

Jssabell Turuowe bap. Marcij vj

Jane Hartley and . . . \ , . .

Thomas Leezo / *^*P- ^^^cij vij

Jane Taylier bap. Marcij vii j

Margery newton bap. marcij ix

Baffenewtfjn ..bap. marcij xv

Alice bttcklej bap. marcij xviij

96 ITOTIS A!fO Glbanixms.
ElUceClegg bap. marcij

John Taylier f^^' ™^'J

Alice whvthead and\ 1 .

Thomas neeld /^*P- -^P'

EUice whittaker .... bap. may

Katherine Heape bap. maij

Ann Stocke bap. maij

Margery Lanf];ley....bap. maj

Raffe brearley bap. Maij

A.nn mellor bap. Junij

AnnJaceon bap. Jalij

Alice wolf enden bap. Angastij

J'ames Taylier bap. Augustij

^fh.x»tr wyld'°'}'-P- Ootob

James Scholes bap. Octobris

Thomas Smethar8te...bap. Octobris

Anno 1565. Burialls xxx.

■Joane Tetlow sep. octob

Robt. mellor sep. nov

Richard Langley . . . .sep. nov

Tho : Radcliffe sep. nov

Elizabeth Taylier sep. nov

41X henry bucley . . • »sep. nov

Alice battersby sep. Dec

J'o. bucley sep. Deer

Jane Cocker sep. Dec

Robt bacley sep. Jan

J^ames Taylier sep. Jan

Will mylnes sep. Jan

Elizabeth ux Jo: Heap sep. Jan

JTohn Goddward sep. Jan

Mary hoult sep. feb

.June Hxor Jo. Wia-1 ^^ ..
terbothom r^' ^^^

xxvj
zxviij

XXX

xvij

XX
X

xviij

• • • »

KXUlj

xxviij

XXX

• •

XIJ

• • •

XVllj
Vllj

xxviij

• •

xxiuj

V
X

XX
XX

xxj

XXltlj
XXX

• •• •

UIJ

...

XIlj

xvj

xxiij

PJBUCUSRAKY

Oldham and Nbighboubhood; 97

John hoult Sep. marcij z

Annis uxor Rich wild.. — march ^ xix

Edmund Street sep. marcij xzij

Thomazin Whithead. .sep. marcij xxvj

Jane flalle sep. Aprill ij

margret hoult sep. Aprill xij

Katt: Tetlow sep. Aprill xxj

£!dmd Taylier sep. Aprill xxiij

John mathew sep. maij xviij

John Hudson sep. maij xx vij

Tho. Tetlow sep. Junij vij

Alice mayall sep. Jnij ix

fUffe Jackson sep. Augustij viij

£dwd Sondifforth sep. August xxx

Baptisms Anno 1566.

John whittaker bap. Octobris - xxj

Sichardwinterbothombap. novembris iij

Thomas wylde bap. novem v

James Scholes bap. nove . xxviij

James brearley bap. Decembris vj

Nicholas blackley .... bap. Decemb xvij

Thomas Houlden .... bap. Januarij v

Marcrret bex wicke .... bap. Jan xiij

Ann Cocker bap. Jan xvij

Jssabell Taylier bap. Jan xviij

Marjsery Cudworth ..bap. Jan xxj

Katherin Ogden bap. Jan xxiij

Xsabell streete bap. fifeb v

Elizkbeth Halle bup. ifeb ix

John, thesonn ol An\, ^ ,^^^^:: m

Sharpies )^*P- '"""^ "^

Ann Hey ward bap. marcij iiij

Alice Cropper bap. marcij xiij

Jane blackley bap. marcij xvj

Elizabeth MelloL* ....bap. marcij xviij

Ann Asheton bap. Aprilis vij

Elizabeth Haslom .. ..bap. Apr xiiij

James Hyne bap. Apr xxi

Katherin Sondi^

<ireaves J

Thomas Selbye bap. Apr xxiiij

Edmunde Tetlowe. . . .bap. Apr xkv

98 [Nons AND GLEANiirob.

Ann Crompton bap. maij zv

mary Taylier • • bap. Junij ziii j

Bobart brearley bap» Junij zvj

Bichard Langley ....bap. Junij ziz

Lawrence buckley .... bap. Junij zx

Susanna CoUinge ....bap. Junij zziilf

Alice Smethurste . . . .bap. Junij zzvj

Henry Tetiowe bap. July zzviij*

'William wylde •..-.. ^
nycholas sondiffortb rbap. Junij
ft Elizabeth Coup . . J

Esabell Sha we bap, July vj

Raffe whitehead bap. July zziiij.

George marsland . . . .bap. July zzviij

Janebardsley bap. Augustij ' iij

Thomas hey ward bap. Augt ziij

Ann whittaker bap. Aug zzv

Qeffray mylne bap. Sep ziiij

Andrewe brearley bap. Sep zvj

Anno 1566. Burials xxxj.

^James whithead sep. Deer zviij

inargret whithead ..sep. Deer xzij

Jsabell Taylier sep. Deo xzvij,

Allicewinterbothom...sep. Jan iij

Josephe Scholes sep. Jan iiij.

Abraham Scholes sep.* Jan x

Anne hilton sep. feb ij

will Halle sep feb vij'

Raffe halkard sep feb zvij'

Margret mayall sep feb zzvj j

Jane the wiffe of Tho. 1 . . .

Chetham |«ep marcij ir

henry smethurste ....sep marcij ziz

Bobart scholes sep marcij zzv

Annis ux. Bobt '

brearley

Annis ux. Bobt J- Sep marcij xxviiji

bucley |

John Leeze J

Margery whitle sep. Aprill xxx

Cristopher benson sepult. maij v

John Taylier sep. maij ix

Alice ux. Alex. 1 _ ..

brearley /»«?• "*^J ™1«

£ilmd sharpies sep. June t

Oldham axd Nxxohboitkhood. 9^

AUice Greene sep. Jane zxiij

EUine,Tay lier sep. Jiilij uij

Andrew street sep. Juiij xv

Edmd street andV^ t i

Ann heywarth ..../»®P- ^^^y «*

Anne Whithead sep. Angust vj

John Greene sep. Sept xiij

Richard wolffend en ..sep. Sept xiiij

Edmd Cheeth^m ....sep. Sept xvj

James Whithead ....sep. sep xxv

G. SuAW.

QUERY.

[48.] Stone Coffin, Oldham Church.

When the old church was taken down in 1827 a-
stone coffin was found, containing, it is said, the
body of one of the Radclifife's of Foxdenton. Can
any of your readers say what became of the coffin
and give a description of it, and also give the
reasons why the body found in it is said to be of
the Radcliffe family ? G. R. Heywood.

Werneth.

^aturbas, Pecember 18ti), 188&.
NOTES.

[49.] Oldham Church.

I enclose you copy of Edwin Butterworth's notes
on the opening of Oldham Church in the year 1830
as contained in his reports, new in the possession
of the directors of the Oldham Lyceum. I doubt
not these notes will be read with considerable
interest by the Oldham public, and especially by
the happy few who remember the opening services
fifty-six years ago, and who still are spared in oar
midst. Samuel Andrew,

"It is now confidently ascertained that this
gorgeous and splendid place of worship will be
opened on Sunday, the 12th of December next, for
a temporary purpose, on which occasion the noble
and excellent organ, said to be the best in the
kingdom, will be conducted by Mr. Knyvett for

^^1G7G\

100 Notes and Gleanings.

the first time ; but it is reported that the grand
opening and musical festival to take place on that
opportunity is postponed till the early part of next
spring.

*' Opening of Oldham Church, — On Sunday last
(December 12th) the new parish or parochial church
at Oldham was opened for divine service the first
time since its late re-erection. The splendour and
beauty, with its noble organ (erected by Me&srs.
Elliott and Hill, of London), contributed to attract
a full, respectable, and even fashionable congregation.
In the forenoon the Rev. William Johnson, vicar
of Mottram, Lon&[dendale, in Cheshire, delivered
an impressive sermon from .... and in
the evening another glowing and elegant dis-
course was made on the occasion by the Rev. John
Handforth, curate of Ashton-under-Lyne. The
high musical talents of the vocal performers tended
in a greiat manner to render the scene sacredly and
sublimely deli&;htf ul to the assembly. Mr. Kny vett,
who ranks high as an organist, conducted that
finC'toned instrument, and Mrs. Knyvett, Mr.
Isherwood, Mr. Hudson, and others, whose
superior voices were assisted by a ^uU choir. The
collections in the forenoon amounted to £68 18$.,
and those of the evening £100 98. Ofd., making
the handsome sum total of £168 17s. 0|d., the
whole of which, excepting the expenses of the pro-
ceedings, will be appropriated in aid of the fuhd
for erecting the Bine Coat School, endowed by
the bequest of the late munificent. Thomas Hen*
sh&w, Esq."

[50.j Notes on the Etymolooies in the Town-
ship OF Oldham.

II.

; There is no doubt but that many of the local

designations of farms, fields, and places in Oldham

are pf very early origin. Some of the appellations

hfive evidently met with contraction and corruption

in their transipission to us ; still, the meanings of

most of them can be clearly ascertained. A good

li^t of them might be gleaned from the registers of

the old church, which, from a bi-ief inspection,.

seemed to us to have been well kept and well

Oldham and Neighbourhood. 101

'preserved. In mo&t cases the name of the
particular estate or hamlet where the persons
lived is noted down, as well as the name
of the township. There are a good many
elevations in the township, such as Priest Hill,
once probably the abode of the clergyman
of Oldham ; and Abram Hills, mentioned in 1466,
are evidently the same as ** Abraham Hills lyins;
l>y Greenacres Moor," which are referred to in a
deed without date. The name of Copy hill at the
above date (1466) was written Caypighill. It ia
only a form of cop, or copping (A.S., coppe), the
head or top of anything, a little round-topped hill;
or, from copse, coppice (French coupeaux), a low
wood, cut at stated times for fuel ; a place over-
grown with short underwood. Copy Nook, or
Coppice Nook, and Copy Hurst are kindred
appellations. Other eminences are named Copster
Hill, Cow Hill, Over or Upper Cow Hill, Beesom
flill, Wabbow Hill, Woother or Wother Hill,
Lord's Hill, Collier Hill, Robin (i.e., Robert
Kay) Hill, Frank Hill (anciently Old Frank's),
Whetstone Hill, Bank Hill, Count Hill»
and Thorp Hill. The meanings of some
of these appellations are apparent at sight,
others can only be conjectured. Other names
are Low, Lowside, Glodwick Low, and Keverlow
(written Caverlow in the middle of the last century)*
The term is derived from the Anglo-Saxon hlcew^
hCaw, a small conical hill, and more especially a heap
of stones or barrow. Barrowshaw Hill is derived
from Beorrf (A.S.), a tumulus or grave mound
raised in honour of persons dying in battle ; and
scurva (A.S.), a copse or thicket. There are many
places named Bank, as Acre Bank, Croft Bank,
Bit Bank, Rhodes Bank, Green Bank, Primrose
Bank (A. D., 1737), Bath Bank, Old Bank, Bank,
Hans^ng Bank, Bankside, Bank Top, and Bank
Meadow. Other lesser elevations of surface are
indicated by Bent Brow, Fowleach Brow, &c.
Oldham Edge carries with it its meaning. Some of
the appellations refer to depressions, as Boggart
Hole, Holebottom (1756), t.e., hall in the bottom,,
Foxholes (perhaps Foxhall). Welli, Wellin, WaUy,

102 Notes and Gleanings.

Welley, or Welly BCole appears to be a corruption
of well-hey-hole, i.e., the holloa place beside the
thom-fenced well. Other uames of this class are
Lingari Clough, Hodge Clough, and Swine
Ciough, the suffix Id each case being derived from
the A.S. clough, and means a cleft, or wooded
valley with rugi^ed sides. Cherry Valley, Dingle,
Paulden, or Poden (anciently Poden, t.e., the head
of the dene, or broad -bottomed clough or valley),
Slack (a hollow). Pits, Wash-pits, Pit Bank, Hop-
kin Pit, and Stoney Flatt. There are many names
which indicate the former existence of considerable
peaty deposits in the locality, for instance, Moss
<7rave (t.e., the grave beside the moss). Moss
^Mill), Broadbent Moss, Fowleach (the foul, wet,
or boggy place), Dirtker (written Dertker, 1758)
means the dirty, miry place. Other modses
during the lapse of ages had become so far con-
■solidated as to be known as moors and
oommons. Of this class were Moor Hey,
Higher Moor Hey, Little Moor (Lane), Maygate
{t.e., Moorgate (Lane)], Higher Moor, Lower Moor,
Top-o'th'-Moor, Bottom-o'-th*-Moor, Side-o'-th*-
Moor, Moorside, Sholver Moor, Greenacres Moor,
And North Moor. In other cases they had been
'* taken in," and devoted to agricultural purposes
by the ever-busy hand of the acquisitive man. Of
these larger commons only small remnants were
left, and known as Earnshaw Green, Hollinwood
Green, and Top-o'-th**Green. The name Bent de-
notes a waste or common, being the name of a
coarse kind of rushy grass, which grows on poor,
half -reclaimed, heathy soils. In this division of
appellations we find Bent, Lower Bent, Top of
Bent, Travis Bent, Broadbent, and Bent-yate,
gate, hall, house, lodge, grange, brow, and green.
Rough Meadow is akin. New Earth (higher and
lower) signifies the land fresh brought into cultiva-
tion. Those names alone strongly prove that Old-
ham has once been well wooded, for mosses and
moores are but the successors of woods and thickets.
But the next class gives proof positive of
the once numerous well-wooded heights and
:flat8 and of many umbragious dells. Fullwood,

Oldham and Neiohboubhood. 103

l^oithwood, Westwood, and HoUinwood are signifi-
cant designations. Coldhurst is equivalent to the
coldly situated wood or grove. Copy-hurst
(mentioned in 1422) denotes the elevated thicket.
Bahrowshaw implies the wood on the burial mound
or grave-hill. Hathershaw, or Haddershaw, has
been translated the ** wood infested by adders,"
Imt seems more likely to signify the wood of
Aethered, which is a S»xon patronymic. Higgin-
flhaw (Higher) has been previously noticed.
Sholver Hey, Moor Hey, Higher Moor Hey,
Nether Hey (from hseg A.S.)> though primarily
meaning a fence ; often, as in these cases, denotes a
cleared enclosure within a forest, park, or wood.
Khodes indicates land assorted or ridded of trees
and underwood. Boothroyd (Lane) means the
clearing beside the Cow- herd's hut. Higher
Oroves seems to be modern. In some cases
tile species of trees are given, such as Oak,
Yewtree, Owlers (t.e. Alders), Alderroot, Round-
fiiom, and HoUins. A few point out pasture
lands, as, for instance, Red Lee, Crowley, Gate
Keld, Bam Field, High Field, Collin Croft." White-
ttofty Workhouse Croft, Simfield or Sumfield,
Bhodes Field, Higher and Lower Clarksfield, &c.

T. W. Hand.
{Continued, )

jfetttrtas, Pecember 26tl), 1886.

NOTES.

{SL] NOTBS ON THE ETYMOLOGIES IN THE ToWNSHIP

OF Oldham.
11. — ( Continued. )
Next we have a number of lanes, some of which
liftve latterly been dignified with the names of
slreetB. In this class are Honeyway, Broadway,
Cbnrch, Green, Block, Coalpit, Roe or Row, and
Bamley lAnes, Top of Lane, Lane End, Whitehead
Ikaae End, Three Lane Ends, and Harley-road.
Gratefieldyate, or Greatfield-gate, and Dol or Dole
fitfle appertain to this division. Gate signifies not

104 Notes and (iLEANiNC«;

only a moveable fence, but also the enclosure of the
homestead, and likewise denotes a way or street.
Dole, from the A.S., means a part or share, asaally
a division or portion of land not fenced ofiF from the
Test of the field, though belonging to a different
owner. The origin of the namea of the 'streets
would furnish materials for an interesting chapter,
but it could only be done properly by some
old native of the place. Goldburn • street
is one of the most ancient, but its present
name is Church -street. Dodsworth, who wrote in
the reign of Queen Elizabeth, mentions it as Grool-
burn-street, one of the two or three reputed birth-
places of Bishop Oldham, the founder of the Man-
chester Free Grammar School. In the adjoining
township of Chadderton there is a place known as
Heald Green, and it is worth while inquiring if these
two estates have not at some remote period bo-
longed to an ancient guild. The etymoloflry of
Gk>nldboum seems to be the boundary of the pro^
perty, or the stream bounding the property of the
guild. So Heald Green appears to mean the plot
of unenclosed land belonging to or adjoining the
possessions of the guild. In further illustration,
two or three facts may be cited from neighbouring
parishes. The Guild of the Blessed Virgin in
1473 held property in Manchester. There ia
also in the township of Busholme in that
parish an ancient tenement called ** Heald
House," a corruption of Guild House, and ao
named from havins; once belonged to a goild.
Another estate in the same township, now the
Flatt Hall demesne, was owned by the Guild of
St. John of Jerusalem as early as 1150, or there-
abouts. These Knights Hospitallers also held pro-
perty in 1422, in the parish of Ashton-under-Lyne.
Their holding there seems to have included a field
or enclosure, termed in the rental of that date the
"Guld Rode," which means the clearing or
assorted land belonging to the guild. In a plan d
Oldham, apparently referring to the early part of
last century, say drca 1730, we find mention of
seven ciosses. One of theoi is called " Croese in
the towne," from its site being in the- centre of the

Oldham and Nbighbourhood 105

village. '< Pig Lee Style Crosse," which stood near
Hargreaves, may have two or three very different
meanings. It would seem to imply the cross near
the style leading into the swine pasture. Thither
the pijirs would be led in the autumn to feed on the
acorns and mast which fell from the trees surround-
ing it. There is, or was, an old proverb to this
effect : —

Good October a good blast.

To blow the hog acorn and mast.

In the town of Warrington there is a very ancient
district called Pig Hill ; in Cowlishaw, Koyton, there
are two enclosures called the Great and the Little
Pigh Hill. These mip;ht be from the Danish pige,
a pike or point, a peaked or pointed hill ; but in
Bridgewater is, or was, a Pig Cross, which, from
Piga, being the A.S. for a (^irl, has been presumed
to mean the Lady Cross, or the cross of the Blessed
Virgin. The locale of ** Grymbye Crosse," which
stood on Oldham, or at least its vicinity, ia
apparently indicated by the name of '*Grimbift
Colliery." This appellation has a very ancient
sound with it. It might seem to imply the dwell-
ing (from the Danish by), or village, of Grim,
which is a Scandinavian pensonal name.
*' Crosse under the Edge" is said to have been
situated near Horsedge Hall and ''Horsedge
Style Crosse," near to Rhodes. Higher and
Lower Horsedge (or Horsage) have been con*
jectnred to mean the hall edge, or the hall on the
edge, or ledge, or in the hedge. Over Horsage and
Nether Horsage, which may signify the edge of the
hurst or thicket, as likely as anything given above^
are alluded to in the year 1553, in connection with
the Rudleys, or, in other words, the red pastures,
or the fields near the road or cross. '*Shoote
Crosse," at Holebottom, commemorates the preva-
lence of archery, in days when our battles were
fought and our victories earned with the bow and
arrow. Then the law of the land, as well as
custom and inclination, made the youth of the
country crowd to the shooting butts. Lastly,
there was " Moor Hill Crosse," on Greenacrei
Moor. But in addition to these relics of past agea

106 Notes and Glbaninos.

there was another, we believe, in Glodwick, and
known from the road on which it was located as
"Broadway-lane Cross." Resuming oar local
etymologies, about the close of last century there
existed sundry clusters of houses, called ** folds,'*
some of them of very ancient date, and originalljr
erected, for purposes of mutual protection and de-
fence. These were known as fold, Top-of-Fold,
Cookhouses, or Cookhouse Fold, Barn, Tythebam,
Smithy, Hopkin, Tetlow, Knott, Scholes, Wall-
work, Harry, Buckley, and Coldhurst folds.
There are three names siguifyinfl: huts or mean
habitations, from Cot or Cota, (A.S. a cottage).
These are Cote, Pee Cote [? Peter's Cottage], and
Nubcote, the small house on the knob or putuber-
Bnce of a hill or summit. Some of the habitations
denominated houses are of comparatively modem
date. These include Lime or Lyme House, the
house beside the boundary (hence also Lime-side
Lime-yate), Lower House, Hargreaves, Wallshaw,
Falcon, Hope, Orleans, Stanleys, and Boxbury
houses, Hathersage Hall, Chamber Hall, and
Lees Hall, were all ancient mansions. Other
old families have given their names to
their tenements, as Warren's, Lillies, Jackson's
Pit, Pawlett's (twice), Wilde's, Potter's, Cowper's
<or Cooper's), Filde's, Tweedale's, Piatt's Farm,
Ghadwick's Tenement* &c. Other places marked
on Bntterworth's map, of 1817, are R. Buckley's*
Widow Booth, Brideoak's Mill, J. Clegg's, B.
Cooper's, A. Dnnkerley's, Gee's, George Hadfield's,
W. Jones, J. Jones, S. Mills, Old Engine,
Robinson's, John Schofield's, Mrs. Kay's,
Kirkham's, Mrs. Whitehead's, T. Wroe's Works,
PergtUa Pictoris, &c. Sheepwashes Brook, or,
AS corrupted, Shapashes, undoubtedly means the
stream where the sheep were doused preparatory
to being shorn. There is a rivulet bearing a simi-
lar name between Fissington and Parwich, in
Derbyshire. Counthlll, previously alluded to, is
reputed to have obtained its appellation from
having been the spot where flocks of sheep
brought from the neighbouring hills. Were
usually sorted and counted by their owners, pre-

Oldham anj> Neiohboubhood. 107

Tions to being disposed of, either in the locality
or at the adjacent markets. Water8heddin/;(s
carries with it its own explanation. School-croft
(so named 1606), and School-croft Head were so
•dnbbed from their contiguity to the Grammar
School. The identity of Abram Hills, *Mying by
Crreenacres Moor," in 1466, seems to be lost. In
one place, Edwin Butterworth s.tates them to be
what is now called Cowhill, and in another
Counthill, Besomhill, Glodwick Loes, &c. Bow-
-street is probably ancient, but Sweet-street,
or Treacle-street^ cannot be very old. The follow-
ing are probably all modern, viz., Mount Pleasant,
Pleasant Spring, Throstle Nest, Retiro, Waterloo,
•Gibraltar, Oswego, Dowrey, Hartsford, ShudehUI,
Vineyard, Union Ground, Curzon Ground, Acre
Mill, Little Town, &c. There are a few whimsical,
«nch as Red Tom Nook, Tommy Field, Fiddler's
Folly, Boggart Hole. Kennillis seems to be a corrup.
^on of Kennedy's, from some family of that name.
Haven implies a place heaved up, or a place of rest, or
4Bhelter. Bargap is a singular appellation, the
prefix signifying a fence or gate, and the suffix
denoting a gap, gape, or passage. A few others,
«aoh as Bridge, Mill End, and the like, carry their
own significations with them. In conclusion, It
may be stated that the foregoing definitions are not
^▼en as indisputable facts, but rather as fair
approximations of the meanings of the several
names of places alluded to. T. W. Hand.

Jfetttrbag, laitttarg Irt, 1887.

NOTES.

[52.] Incumbents of Saddleworth^
List of persons having held the living of Saddle-
worth Church. Compiled from Canon Raines'
MS., &c. John Radcliffe.

1230, Circa.— Chaplain in the Chapel of Saddle-
worth occurs in a deed of William de Staple-
ton granting the Tithes of Forest. (See attesta-
tion Thomas Clericus.)

108 Notes and GLEANiNa.«:

Robert Cleric attest a grant of land in the*
Forest of Sadil^^orth by Richard Ruffus, of
Stayley, or Staveley, to Ralph, his brother. A
clerk before the Reformation was not a priest oir
deacon, bnt a minister, acolyte, or lay clerk»
properly S3 called. The minister was the-
parochus, who was always in fall orders.

1535. — Dom GuUielmus Taylor, curate of Saddle
worth, and assessed to the subsidy in that-
year. The chantry priest of Sadyl worth in
the same year was Dom Elize or Ellis Ash-
worth. The chaplains of the chantries in a
parish church were required to attend the-
daily mass in the choir previous to its celebra-
tion in their particular chantries. They were
never theologians, nor fond of direct' exhorta-
tions, yet they daily did the special duties of
their calling.

1539. — John Shawe or Shappe, ahd Patrick Prea-
cott, chaplains of Saddleworth and Butter-
worth. One sum of 12s., in the year 1539,
from the receiver of Whalley, was paid to the
above. (Rev. J. Ponsonby Lyons, Augm.
Office, Ministers, Accts. from Computus, of
Whalley, 1539.)

1548. — Dom Thomas Hawker. He is retamed
''mortuus" at Bishop Bird's visitation in 1548,,
and the two priests of Sadleworth are Doxa>
Robert Radclyffe, Dom Richard Mercer.

1556-7.— Dom Robert Radclvfife answered the
Bishop's call as incumbent of Saddleworth in
1556-7. He was afterwards head master of Roch-
dale Grammar School, 1567 ; Richard Mercer
was his curate. Each priest had his assistant
deacon and sub deacon to assist in celebrating
daily for the dead, but how they were remn-
nerated for these services I have not discerned.
The chantry priest's stipend was 5 marks^ or
£3 6s. 8d.; and the mode, time, place of cele-
bration, were all for the most part enjoyned byr
the founder.

1556 (circa). — Mr. George Hnntcote, curate of
Saddleworth. He was there VI. Eliz. (1563).

Oldham and Neiohboubhood. 109

1665. — Mr. John Yatts, or Yates, curate. Or-
dained sub-deacon and presby. about 1542, at
Gestr.; also of Whitworth, parish of ftochdale,
clearke, under his will on the 13 June, 1574, '
which was proved at Chester on the 13 July
in the same year. He desired to be buried in
the Parish Church of Rochdall, and the only
bequest in his will is via. \md, unto the
poorest fokee in Wordle, and probably few
would be found poorer than himself. On the
12 of Oct., 1552, the King's Commissioners,
Trafford, Holcroft, and Holt, Knts., delivered
ior the King's use to John Yate, priest of ye
Chapell of Whitworth, ** one chali^, one vest-
ment, and auter clothes." — Lane. ch. goods
Excheq. 3-52.

1570, May 5.— Robert Farrand, clerk of Saddle-
worth. In the 18 Eliz. (1575) the
Attorney-General prosecuted, in the Court of
the Duchy of Lancaster, Robert Farrand, who
claimed to hold from Sir John Byron, Knt.,
Lessee of the Archbishop of Canterbury,
oommon pasture on lands late parcel of the
Chappel of Saddle worth (Ducatus Lancastrise,
vol. 3, p. 39). He was probably the same man
as the clerk. ^

1583. — Mr. John Wild, minister of Saddleworth.
He was the son of Mr. Wild, of Cowlishaw,
near Shaw, where his family still reside.
For his will, which was proved at Chester, 17th
January, 1592, see Bp. Gastrell's **Notitia,"
-Gest. vol. 2, pt. 1, page 144, as follows: —
After desiring that his body might be buried
in the chancel of his church, proceeds to say :
Whereas I have taken of the \> orshipf ul Sir
•John Byron over and besides a lease taken of
Edmund Hey ward and Robert F errand of
lands now in my own tenure, a lease of lands
and the reversion for twenty -one years after-
wards, and acknowledging mine own manifold
defects and wants in the performance of my
duty, in word and doctrine, to the people, and
in token of my true repentance for the same,
sxkd from my unfeigned love to the people, and

112 Notes akd Gleanings.

Anne Gndworth bap. Auguste xiiij

Thomas needle bap. Auguate xv

Anne halle bap. Auguste xvj

John Taylier bap. Angus tij x viij

mary worrall bap. Augustij xx j

JaneStocke bap. Augustij xxiij

margret Asbton bap. Augustij xxvij

James Taylier bap. Septembris j

James brearley bap. Sept xix

Annismatthew bap. Sept xxiij

Eilizabeth scholes bap. octobris iij

Roger Lan&;ley bap. octob iiij

Henry e Thorp bap. octob x v

mary Donkerley bap. octob xviij

Anno 1567. Burialls xxvj.

Elizabeth werrall sep. octob xx v

Lawrence Taylier sep. nov vj

Tho. Leeze sep. nov xij

Jo. Taylier sep. Dec xiij

Richard Jasson sep. Dec xxvj

Jo. Cropp sep. Jan xx

Georg Crompton sep. feb xiiij

Sussanna Cromton sep. marci j vij

Jo. Coup sep. marcij viij

Ba. wild sep. ApriU xxiiij

Jo. Hopwod sep. maij xx

There are some leaves of the register missing.
The next entry for burials is February, 1578.

G. Shaw,

^atttrtag, lattuarg 8tl), 1887.

NOTES,
[64.] Shaw Chapel and Its Associations.
The following interesting article on Shaw Chapel
was written by the late Mr. John Higson.

Thos. VV. Hand.
I.
The origin and toundation of Shaw Chapel is of
ancient and unknown date. According to a re-
iterated statement made by a late member of the
Crompton family, it appeared, from documents to

Oldham and Neighbourhood. 113

which 4ie had access, that it was more ancient than
Oldham Old Church. It has been conjectured
that it originated out of an increase of wealth
and population produced by the localisation of
the woollen trade at a very remote period*
There can be little doubt of its having been,
m the first instance, a small chantry, perhaps
founded by the Byron family, who, at an early
date, owned considerable estates in the township.
•• Shay Chapel " occurs in 1577, in Saxton's Map of
Lancashire. The Rev. Canon Haines, in his notes
to *Gastreirs *• Notitia Ceatriensis," quotes a tra-
dition that the chapel was anciently called "St.
Patrick's Chapel on the Moor," and that the altera-
tion of the Saint took place when the edifice was
rebuilt, in the last century. Adjoining the chapel,
says the same authority, are some lands still called
**Moor Fields." Hugh Burdman was licensed
July 8, 1515, to the office of Reader in Shaw
Chapel. Robert Symonds vacatbd the curacy
in 1650, and was afterwards rector of Middle-
ton. Early in the last century it was certified
that no certain salary belonged to the curate, and
therefore curates seldom stayed long, and intervals
occurred when there w as no minister at all. The
Rev. Joshua Stopford was curate from 1752 to
1755. One of his sons, William, was curate of
Stretford, near Manchester, 1766-78, and afterwards
rector of Wyham, near Louth, and also for many
years second master of Louth Grammar School,
Lincolnshire. He died in 1818, and was
buried at Brantnigham, near Brough, in York-
shire, of which parish his son Joshua was vicar.
The Rev. James Wild became curate Julv 12th,
1761. In a document compiled in June, 1778, it is
stated that ** one of the seven chapels in the parish
' of Prestwich is commonly called Shaw Chapel
(dedicalion not stated), and is ten miles from Prest-
wich Church. It is endowed with two lots from
Queen Anne's bounty, procured by benefaction,
which is laid out in the purchase of lands, the rents
of which amount to £46 a year. It is regularly
served every Lord's Day by the Rev. Mr. Masheter,
♦ Chet. Soc, vol. xix,, p. 120,

U4 {Notes and GLSAKiifyb.

^oly qualified and licensed." The incumbent al;^
^e close of the last, and the commencement
c| the present century, wa» the Rev. Joseph
Qordem, M.A„ of Brazenose CoUsge, Ox-^
fordy who had been curate of Prestwioh
1788-95, and was presented to Shaw by the rectoir
cf. Prestwich. He married Ellen, sister of the ReT*
John Taylor Allen, M.A., vicar of Stradbroke^
Suffolk, and during his residence at Shaw he
brought up three of his sons to the Church. One
of them was the Rev. Joseph Hordem, M.A., bis
svccessor to the incumbency of Shaw ; he waa
i^terwards vicar, of Rostberne, in Cheshire, and
then of Burton Agnes. Another son was the Rev.
"^eter Hordern, M.A., librarian of the Chatham
Hospital, and incumbent of Chorlton-cum-Hardy,
near Manchester. The third son wa» the Kev«
James Hordern, M.A., who succeeded Jaia
eldest brother to the incumbency of Shaw, and
during the time he was there he was the
senior magistrate of the Oldham. Sessions, and hy
bis strict impartiality he gained the respect of all
classes. At one period he occupied a portion of
|U>yton Hall, and afterwards Failswortli Lodge,
keeping an academy for young gentlemen. He ex-
changed liviocs with the Rev. Daniel Bramojally in
1841, for a vicarage in Kent. On the death of the
latter clergyman, the living was presented to the
^v. Samuel Edwin Bar tlect, M.A., curate of Preat*
wich, who, amongst other good things, is endeavoor-
^g to improve the choral services of the chnrch«-
The present chapel is dedicated to the Holy
Trinity, and the registers date from 1704. Canon
Raines says the chapel is parochial, and a chapel
rate is levied and collected independent either of
Prestwich or Oldham. According to a couple of
inscription stones once located within the rails of
the altar, but now more appropriately placed.
i^ainst the exlenml wall of the vestr>, the-
c^apcl was r*ibuilt in 1739 (at a cost of
£1,100), and enlarged nine feet from south to-
north, under t'.ie auspices of nine *' acting tms-
tees ;" it was ugaiu rebuilt {nic) in 1798, at which
time it was enlarged twenty feet from south to*

Oldham and Nkiohbourhood. 115

north wall, under the auspices of the '* acting
trn^teea." The present chapel— uf;ly though it be,
architecturally speaking — possesses a certain
amount of interest as being a link between the
ancient chapel and the new and more ecclesiastical-
looking edifice fructifying in the womb of time.
Indeed, it we are not much mistaken, such is the
new-bom zeal of the Shaw-Cromptonians that some
fine morning on our waking up we shall be greeted
with the sight of a new and beautiful structure.

On a recent visit in vain did we seek for a relic
of tlie older edifice, which is said to have occupied
a portion of the site of the present chapel. There
is, however, a slender octagonal pillar, springing
from a square b&ement, and which, if not coeval,
may at least have been contemporaneous with the
ancient fane. This shaft is some 3ft. 9in. high,
by QJin. wide one way and 8 j the other, havinfl;
apparently once been square, or rather oblong, in
form, and afterwards splayed so as to render it
octangular. The grit of the stone differs from any-
thing found in the locality, and it seemed more
than probable this relic once- formed the plinth of
a mortuary or churchyard cross. Though now
placed near the south-west angle of the
yard, it formerly stood opposite the entrance
to the present chapel. There are marks
of a sun dial on its summit, and we were in-
formed that it once supported one, which, some
thirty years a^o, was wrenched off, it was sup-
posed in search of money ! A reward of £5 was
offered for the discovery of the offenders, who were
thought to be harvesters from the sister isle, bnt
were as likely English patronisers of the marine
stores. The chapel is a very plain, rectangular
edifice, built of rcck-fased gritstone, obtained in
the locality, with window dressings and keystones
of ashlar. It is lighted on each side by. two tiers of
windows, all the ^ve windows in each tier being
sash'-glazed, and connected with each other by
means of a string course, level with and joining
the cushions of the arches. The eastern gable
has a triplet windoNV, the central light having a
semi-circular head, whilst the lateral ones are

116 Notes and Gleanings.

square or flat-headed. Above it runs a string
course, and over that, in the co-iipass of the gable,
and near its apex, is a semi-circular- headed window.
On the north side of the communion window is a
small li^ht of rather more ornate character than the
Qthers, having been inserted of late yeais, and on
the other side a sort of priest's entrance door
has been blocked up. The western gable, on
the northern side of lower storey, has a seldom-
used door occupying the lower part of a win-
dow, and evidently an after-thought, and on
the southerly side a window similar in character
to the other<t. Between these two projects
A parapeted vestry, lighted by a window on
its south side, but entered from the church. The
second storey has three windows similar to the
rest, and above them is a gable window correspond-
ing with that in the east end. Risins^ from a
stone cornice is the grey slated roof, its
western apex being surmounted by a hexa-
gonal bell turrent, crested with a wind-
fane. The only entrance into the interior
at present used is on the south side, contiguous
to the west end, the doorway being ornamented
with stone dressings, cushions, and keystones. The
fiite seems to be a gravelly loam, and the founda-
tions having given way, the structure has been
bolted together with tie-rods, the heads of which
do not at all add to the external beauty of the
structure. Entering within, we found the galleries
supported by ten slender cast-iron pillars. There
is an organ on the western gallery. The pulpit
is a huge triplet, or ** three-decker," accoutred
•with a hideous V ** sounding board." The font
is a p Hinted utensil, the bowl a meagre
vase, supported by a balustre-like pedes-
tal, in accordance with the notions of the time
when it was fabricated. The eastern, window
is filled in with stained glass in memory of John
Thomas Cocker, of Newbank, and of his children.
It strongly reminds one of a like obituary memorial
in Saddleworth Church. On each side of it are
large figures, one representing Moses and the other
•Aaron, painted in oils on board, by John Collier,

Oldham and Keiohboubhood. 117

aZtas "Tim Bobbin." The church will accommo-
date aboat 1,000 persons, and 200 of the sittings
are free. One of the pews has some pretensions to
exclusion, and belongs to the Milne's family. Some
of the seats in the eastern end of the south ais)e,
oonventionally speaking, have rudely-carved letters
in the type of the period, denoting the names or
initials of former occupants of the bench, when they
were located in the ancient chapel. These scant and
frail memorials of seventeenth century folk are
worth recording, as evidences of the names of the
then resident families. They include— A. C,
J. W„ Barsleys, B. I., I. K., I. M., M., A.,
H. W., I. W., I. K., and E. M. There are a few
tablets on the walls ; one of them, of marble, is
inscribed to the memory of the Kev. William'
Bennett, B.A., of St. John's College, Cambridge,
who died March 4th, 1846, in the thirty-first year
of his age, and the second of his ministry as curate
of the chapel.

^aturbag, laituarB 15tl), 1887.

[55.] Registebs of Oldham Chubch.

Baptisms 1568.

Anne Heape bap. octobris xxvi

James needle bap. novembris xvj

John Halle soneofO, ^ „«„^.„i^ ^„::i
Edmunde r*P- novemb xviij

margret whittaker ...bap. novemb xxj

James mellor bap. Decembris xvij

James newton bap. Decemb xxj

Catherin Ogden bap. xviij Januarij

Alice hoppwod bap. Jann xxvij

Ann Heap bap. februarij xiiij

Georg wolssencrofte^l

Raffe halkard j- bap. f eb xvij

Annis Taylier J

AnneGoddarte \, ^ ., ..

John Walker r*P- ^«^ "^3

118 NOTBS AND GLXANIVaS.

tJohn fi il ton Thotnael « t

wintnrbothom n^' """•«'» ^^''J

ft'^:::::::::::}^^^ -j

John ogden ")

Ellizab«th aad Jane J- bap. march zxv

bucley )

William whithead ...'

Robarte Jacson

Kaffe Tetlow sone of
Rich

Thomas whittaker...! i ^ x^^-t\
Joane whithead /^P- ^^^^

James Kyrshaw bap. Aprill xxv

Anne streete bap. Jnlij iij

margret houlte andl* . ,^^lz'

EFline greene j^P' ^""^^^ ^^

James whittaker bap. Augustij xxij

Johnmatthew bap. Sep xj

Joane halle bap. Sep

Edmunde brearley ...bap. OctobrU iij

John Tetlowe bap. Octob vij

march zxx

xvij

Baptisms 1569.

John Heap bap. octobris xxij

John Sondifforth bap. octob xxvij

John heap bap. novem xxiij

Arthur stocke bap. novem xxvj

Anne whltle bap. Decern x

John brearley bapr Decern xiij

Goorg halle and\, j. .

John Whithead . . . / ^*P- ^®° ^^^

Thomas mathew bap. Decern xxviij

John walworke bap. Januarij x

Rogger wyld ^

John Jacson j-bap. Januciri j xix

Anne Taylier j •

James whithead bap. f eb j

Anne Taylier and\, „^ .. *.

Annehopwood ../^*P- ^^^ ^'^

Oldham and Neighboubhood. 110

-Joane walker and\.^^ , . ^.

Robart mathew r^^' ^®^ ^'^

Peeter Ogden bap. feb xxvij

4iiargery Hnnte bap. marcij iiij

Joane Halle bap. marcij ix

Anne Tetlovir bap. marcij xj

Jane Henthome bap. marcij zvij

Kicbard Coupe and\. „^ «»„^„:;

Stephen mellw .... f^^' ""^^*J ^^

Edmund wylde bap. Aprillis xvj

Sammuell Tetlow . . • .bap. Aprill xix

Edward Taylier bap. Aprill xxv

Jaaabell Ogden .•..lu«« a««:ii ^^„h

margeryHalkard ..jbap. Aprill xxvij

wants monthes 6.

The above entry, and likewise the following
«ntry, show that the registrar at this date was not
over particular In running one year into that of
another. The next entry is

Anno 1571.

margery Jacson bap. novemb x

Addam mellor bap. nov xvj

Henry whittaker ...*.. bap. nov xxiij

Baffe Thorp bap. nuvemb xxviij

John brearley bap. Decemb x v

Johnwyld bap. Decemb six

Anne Kyrshaw bap. Decem xxviij

Anne hall bap, Jannuarij x

AnneLangley ..bap. feb xiij

• • • . I
. • • • I

Orace brearley

Alice wyld }-bap. marcij iiij

£dm whithead

Alice mathews 1k.»

jbap.

Bichard Assheton ../»»?• ""^^ ^^^^

Allice whittaker.... \.^ ^.^ ^--,

inary Halle f^^' "^'^ ^"^

Edmunde Tetlowe bap. march xxx

uatgret Jacson bap. Aprill vij

malrye wyld bap. Aprill xx

JoaHe wyld :.. bap. Aprill xxv

120 Notes and Gleanings.

Jeffray Coup bap. maij ij

Edmund Conp bap. maij xij

Aime Schofeld bap. maij ziij

Joane walker ........ bap. Junij viij

John Taylier bap. J aij xix

Arther whitle and^i t

Kathere Taylier... r*P- ^^ ^^^^^

Thomas, Fon of\v ^ t„, ^

Crystopherwyld. . T^P" ^""^^ ^

Anne blacklowe bap. July x Wj

John wyld and^i t„,

Jane whithead ...)^P- ^"^^ "^

margery Jacson bap. July zxvij

Baffe Cud worth bap. Sept ij

Jane smetherst and), q _

Cutbardbuoley ../'"'P' ^ ^^I'

margery Tetlow bap. ootob xviij

Robart buckley bap. no v xrj

John whitle andli v

Allice hopwod .r ^P- "^^^"'^ ^°^J-

Alice brearley bap. Decern vij

Edmud Taylier bap. Deo xvij

iSzabeth Taylier ....bap. Januarij v

Jane whittaker bap. Jan xj

John brearley bap. Jan xij

John Taylier bap, Jan xv

Robart Ofi^den bap. Jan xxii|

Elizabeth Holin worth, bap. marcij iij

Raffe Jacson and\|^„^ „,„^«:5 ,^

Elizabeth hall f^^' ""^^^'^ ^

The next line in the Register is
Baptbms. Anno 1574.

Henry whitle bap. Aprill v

Dorathe banester bap. Aprill viij

Thomas Hollinworth ..bap. Aprill xj

Grace wylde bap. Aprill - xyj

KatherinHeap bap. Aprill xx

Arthur Schoffeld ......bap. Aprill xxij

Elizabeth Asheton bap. maij xvij

Joane walker bap', may xxix

Oldham and Neighbourhood 121

Edward whithead bap. June vj

marywylde bap. Junij xj

Anne mellor bap. Jnj xx

Thomas Crompton bap. J ulye xxj

John Vallentyne bap. Julij xxv

Ottiwell wylde bap. Julij xxvij

Raffe Jacson bap. Augustij ij

John blacklow bap. Augustij vij

John Hunte bap. Augustij x

nfcholas whittaker ..bap. Austij xxTij

Jane scholes . .g. . . . • .^ bap. Aug xxviii

Dorathe ogdcn bap. Dec xxv

Anne Coup bap, octob viij

Annbuckiey bap. octob xvj

John Taylier and Ane1,„ ^_, -

Coup: jbap. nov j

John whithead bap. novem viij

Ane Kershaw bap. nov xx

Ane CoUinson bap. nov xxij

Marye Hobkine bap. nov xxvii j

William Smyth and\,„^ -n^^ ^_|ji

Jeffrayffytton r./^^P' ^^^ ^^"^

nicholas whitle bap. Jau iij

EUizabeth Halle bap. Jan vj

Alice Scholes bap. Jan vij

Edmunde Smetherste..bap. Jan ix

Eaffe Kyrshawe bap. Jan xj

Alice Jacson bap. Jan xvij

Elizabeth hopwood bap. feb vij

Richard halle bap. feb xij

Alice Tay Her bap. feb xviij

Elizabeth Tetlowe«...bap. feb xx

George Anesley bap. feb xxvii j

Katherin needle bap. marci j xix

Jane Ogden bap. marcij xxv

G. Shaw-

f^m

-^3-

122 NoTBs andGleaninos;

JSatttrtas, Jatuxarg 22ttb, 1887.

NOTES.
[56.] 8oME Account of Shaw Chapel and its

ASSOCIATIONS.

11.
The graveyard, which is intersected with four
loothpaths, is a short field's distance from the
village, and is prettily surroanded with grassy
meadows. There is a small building, probably the
hearse house, in the north-east angle of the yard.
There are about a dozen altar tombs ; otherwise,
with a single exception of an upright slab, the grave-
stones are all placed in a horizontal position. The
oldest inscription remaining is dated March, 1728-9.
The next in point is inscribed thus: "Here
Besteth the Body of James Clegg, of Shaw Side,
Batchelor, who Departed this Life ye 22nd day
of September, in the 74th Year of His
Age, Anno Dom. 1729." Either Mr. G. must have
prided himself in so long enjoying a state of
fidngle-blessedness, or, otherwise, celibacy must
have been locally rare in those times thus to
warrant notices of it on a gravestone. Near the
west end is a massive table«tomb commemorating
one Archibald Leitch, who died in 1768, with a
quaintly ornamented headpiece. The sculptor has
represented a dead man rising from a tomb and
bursting or throwing off his cere clothes at the
sound of a couple of trumpets, blown by a fat-
oheeked angel on each side. One of the most note-
worthy inscriptions appears on a, large stone slab
reared against the west end of the vestry, and in-
Kcribed to the memory of *' William Travis, of
Shaw, Clerk of this Chapel seventy years, who
died May 18th, 1846, in the 89th year of his age."
The repugnance to reposing on the north side of a
church is manifest here as elsewhere, and we did
not observe a single stone, sav« a fragment lying
carelessly under a spout. It was inscribed to the
memory of " Alice, wife of John Buckley, [who]
died 25 Debember, 1768." Many of the memorials
show a fondness for Biblical Christian names, one

Oldham asd Neigiibouuhood. 123

of the stones we casually noticed commemorating a
-Jacob, James, Isaac, Abraham, John, Patience,
Isaac, Ann, and, we think, Jane, the latter only,
strictly speaking, not of Scriptural origin. Many
of the stones display verses and rhymes, the out-
pourings of the rustic mind. One of recent date
declares that

Death's darts are sudden ; hore's an instance plain,
Alive and well— but in a moment slain.

The person so commemorated must have had
'Christian sympathies, as from an inscription lower
down we find tliat one of his childen, who died in
childhood, was baptised by the name of Feargus
O'Connor, after the chartist agitator. One of the
stones commemorates Joseph Taylor, of Shaw,
-•choolmaster, who died in January, 1856, in his
seventy-seventh year. The pedagocrue seems to
hare been an utilitarian, or otherwise his executors
were, inasmuch as he rejected the ** y " used in the
spelling of the surname by his ancestor, John
Taylor. There is one epitaph, apparently a parody
or paraphrase on that of Shakespeare, in remem-
brance of Mary, daughter of Samuel Beck with, of
Greenfield, "carpenter of this chapel," who de-
parted this life November 1st, 1804, in the twelfth
.year of her age,

Iiet no mde hand with spade prepare
To dig the dust tliat's buried here.
But let it rest on this its bed
Until the graves give up their dead.

A few words will not be out of place concerning the
very respectable family oi Travis, one of whom,
<3leorge Travis, of Hey side, yeoman, died 23rd
February, 1739, aged 62 years, and is buried in an
-altar-tomb near the south-west corner of the chapel.
The inscription, or horizontal stone, has a floral
liorder, with a " death's head *' in the centre. He
Is thus eulogised : —

Here lyeth the.oshes of one deeply leam'd

In mysteries'deep of thenoblA art ;
The strongest reasons were by him discem'd,

Mo epitaph can speak his true desert ;
In Mualyticks he was deeply skilled ;

Despising fame, he led a rural life.
To pnde a stranger— with each virtue fiU'd,

▲ friend to peace, an enemy to strife.

He was a mathematician of considerable attain-

124 Notes and Gleanings.-

xnents. He wEts descended from the Travifles of
Inchfield, in Kochdale parish, who emigrated,
thither from Blackley, in the parish of Man-
chester, in the time of Queen Elizabeth. He watf-
progenitor of the Travise^ of Shaw, Royton,
&c. One of his sons, the Rev. Benjamin-
Travis, was nominated incumbent of Royton iiL
September, 1760, which living he held till his
death in October, 1774. Another of his sons, John
Travis, Esq., of Heyside, Royton, was father to
the Rev. Georee Travis, who, in 1766, was a pupil'
in * Manchester Free Grammar School, subsequently
Archdeacon of Chester, vicar of Eastham, and
rector of Handley. Ue was well known to the
learned divines of his day as an accomplished
scholar, and published some controversial letters to
Gibbon, the historian, which were dedicated to
Dr. Beilby Portens, Bishop of London, Miss De-
borah Travis, now Mrs. Knyvett. The vocalist ia
of this family. One of the present chapel officials
is a grandson of the Rev. Benjamin Travis,
and, amongst other matters, he stated that
one of the Travises, havinc; a taste for
gene^lofiy, traced the family to Heptonstall
in Yorkshire, and thence went to France and
Germany without ascertaining anything respecting
their origin. W'e suspect Spain or Portugal would
have been more likely countries, as the name evi-
dently comes from the Spanish travas, which la
the appellation of the shackles used in breaking;
in horses, and leads to the conclusion thai;
the founder of the family followed that vocation*.
A family bearing the local name of the hamlet
(Shaw) was resident here in 1370, and another
using the name of the township (Crompton)>
has been located here from time immemoriaL
The Cockers are also of ancient standing
in the township, and one of them — the Rev. John
Cocker, B.D., of Bank — was for many years fellow,
tutor, and bursar of St. Peter's College, Cam-
bridge, but now lives a private and retired life at
his native place. Mr. Philip Gilbert Hamerton,
who has written seveAil valuable treatises on
painting, and contributes ocrasionally to some of
* Chet. Soo., vol. box., p. 67.

Oldham and Neighboubuood. 125

the leading magazines of the day, is a native of
Shaw, and is descended on his mother's side from
the Cockers. Other ancient families still resident
include the Milnes, Wilds, &c.

For niore than a century and a quarter the in-
habitants of Shaw and its vicinity have been noted
for their love of vocal music. Not only was con-
siderable attention devoted to the dhapel choir, but
it was once customary for some of the more wealthy
to have private concerts in their houses. A
musical societv was established in the hamlet of
Shaw on the 6th of January, 1740, and held its
centenary in 1840, and though still existing, is in
great jeopardy of b3ing run out, inasmuch as we
have been informed it has dropt down to a single
member ! In the heyday of its prosperity its
annual meetings were held in February, and
latterly in December, in the form of a mis-
cellaneous concert in the church schoolroom.
In conclusion, a word or two upon the
local vocalists, and here wc are indebted to the
Butterworths' histories of the chapelry. Miss
Deborah Travis, previously alluded to, was born at
•Shaw, and completed her musical education with
Thooias Greatorix, Esq., conductor of *'The
Ancient Concerts," in London, at which she was
long a favourite. She attained a very Jiigh rank
amongst English vocalists, and her singing of
mviy of Handel's compositions was admitted
never to have been surpassed. She married
(in 1827) William Knyvett, Esq., one of the
ffentlemen of her Majesty's Chapel Royal. Mr.
•Jonathan Nield, for a long period a member of the
choir in the Chapel Royal, was a native of Shaw-
edge. He was at one time a member of Lord de
-Grey's band, at Heaton Hall, and his vocal powers
Slaving attracted the attention of that nobleman, he
exerted his influence, and obtained for him an
appointment in the Chapel Royal. Mr. William
Barnes, the celebrated violin player, was a native
of Oldham, but made his debut at a concert at Shaw
when only eleven years of age. Forty years after-
wards he played his last notes at the same place.
He died March 13th, 1845, much respected by

126 Notes and Glkanings.

musicians in many distant villages, where hi»
talent had long been known and appreciated.

Tho. W. Hand.

The Manchester Mummy.
In every old town and some new ones are to be
found mysterious buildings which always seem,
silent among all **thia moving up and down,'*
about which nobody knows anything save a few
antique respectable old fogeys, who are well cared
lor at home, as their clean linen and very neatr
cravats testify. Of such places are the Man-
chester Literary and Philosophical Society, the
Portico, the clubs, and the Concert Hall, where,
under glare of gas, and surrounded with a satiety
of perfumes, gentlefolks pretend to understand
music and vie with each other in such like harm-
less hypocrisies. In the daytime some of these
porticoed structures without windows might be
taken for chambers of Blue Beard : and I recollect
looking for some such monster issuing suddenly
from the side door and dragging me in, when I
was a boy. But then boys knew absolutely nothing,
of darkness except in winter, and could not
imagine the revelries of fashion which took place
in the hours when they were asleep. One build-
ing in Manchester, erected by the benevolence of
our learned forefathers, of this nature, was the
Natural History Society's Museum in Peter-
street. In my youth it was a very lively place
at holiday times. This was when Ardwlck Green
with its pond was the only near rural resort for
Sunday school scholars, and when a canal trip to
Dunham in coal boats was the greatest event in the
year. But this museum was not near so popular,
even then, as the Chetham College, whose curiosities
were publicly exhibited at certain seasons of the
year. There was a sort of old time odour about the
college, and an envious admiration of the lon/T'Coated
boys with thick clasped shoes, whi.-h seemed to con-
secrate everything about the building. And then
some of the wonders of these cloisters and sunless
halls were almost supernatural, such as the clog split
with a thunderbolt, and the wearer
Noatlior lawm't nor nowt.

Oldham and Neiohbourhood. 127

Above all, perhaps, the shrill description of the
wonders by a real Humphrey Chetham foundationer
made the place a sort of chapter in the history of a
giant killer which no boy can read without anxious
pleasure. Nothing was so saddening as the last
speech of the exhibitor, who, pointing his stick at a^
wooden chantieleer, exclaimed, *' That's the cock
that crows when it smells roast beef, and (pointing
rapidly to the doorway) that's the way out." Of
course, we always obeyed the mandate, but left
our hearts' behind. But the museum in Peter-
street, like an unappreciated genius, began to feel
the effects of neglect. It existed for thirt}' years
under the best patronage, and had the merit of
being as orthodox, both in a religious and scientific
sense, as anything under the sun. Men of alH
creeds could fraternise under its roof and derive
instruction and pleasure therein without sin or
temptation. In addition to these advantages tb»
curiosities were those of nature and not art. But,
believe it or not, truth is not near so attractive as-
fiction. I suppose most people have read the
story of the Roman Emperor who could squeak
Hke a young pig, and challenged the empire to
beat him. A young Roman accepted the challengs^
and appearing on the stage at the CoUiseum in a
toga, or capacious cloak, began to imitate the
squeak of a pig, but was hissed off the stage.
Before taking his leave, however, he disclosed
from beneath his toga a real pig, which had done
the squeaking. This is but a picture of the world
which prefers the counterfeit to the gold, and the
imitation to the reality. If anybody is sceptical let
him contrast the popularity of the theatres in this
same street with the once dead museum which has
now become the Young Men's Christian Association.
Museums, from their very nature, cannot be
popular. Perhaps the dullest, and yet the richest
in solid 'worth and interest, of all the public
buildings in London is the British Museum. Its
literary wealth is entombed, and its other treasures
are too inanimate to charm the casual observer.
The bulls of Assyria and the mummies of Egypt
need the mind and hand of genius to make them

128 Notes and Gleanings.

interestiDg. But I must tear myself away from
•these thoughts and talk of

THE MANCHESTER MUMMY.

To me, at least, the most wonderful sight in this
museum was the embalmed body of Miss Beswick.
My recollections of it are very clear. The body
was well preserved, but the face was shrivelled
and black. The legs and trunk were tightly
wrapped in strong cloth of a pattern such as is
used for bed ticks, and the body was that of a little
Mroman. Ah, me ! What a vitality, a viciousness,
a determination to 2>e, and to do, and to suffer there
is in little women. The body was in a glass
coffin-shaped case, and could be seen in every part.
Here my memory stops. I cannot remember the
inscription on the coffin, and I have asked at least
, a score of people about it, to no purpose. Miss
Beswick was embalmed by a clever and remarkable
physician and surgeon of Manchester who
flourished in the third quarter of last century, and
died in 1813 at the ripe age of 85. Dr. White was
one of Manchester's worthies, and in his pro-
fession was one of. the most eminent men in the
country. As a striking evidence of the truth that
hard work, in which both mind and body are en-
gaged, never kills anybody, it must be told that Dr.
White toiled incessantly up to the last. Nor wad
he idle in his leisure, for, as a pleasant recreation, he
contributed many volumes to the store houses of
medical science, which are remarkable for their
transparent profundity. His activity in connection
with public matters, especially with the foun Jine; of
the Manchester Royal Infirmary, was scarcely less
than that of his professional exert ons, and his
memory ought to be dear to this and all succeed-
ing generations of Manchester men. About a
hundred years ago this Miss Beswick died leaving
her body to be embalmed, and her estate on con-
ditions of perpetual imnmntty from the. grave. *

♦ I understand that the corditions of Miss Beswick's will
were that her body should be embalmed and kex^t above the
ground for one hundred years, and that thesd conditioDS
were strictly lulfiUed. The estate is in the neigtbourhood
of Barton-on-Imrell, and the descendants of Dr. Whi'e are
still in possession of it. 1 have, however, retained the
afi83rfcion that Miss Beswick was only kept above ground

Oldham and Neighbourhood. 129

For eiG^hty years the literal interpretation of her
will was followed, and her body was kept for
many years in Dr. White's house in King-street.
I understand also that it was removed from the
old house where now stands the old Town Hall
to his later resideno:^ on the other side of the
street, and that it was afterwards conveyed with
some other curiosities to the top of King-street,
and finally lodged in the Museum in Peter-street
in 1837. All this is tradition, but I believe it is
substantially true. With a view of verifying these
circumstances I have examined all the likely books
and places for authentic information. It
may seem incredible, but it is nevertheless a
fact, that no catalogue of the old museum has
found its way into the Reference Library, nor any
other record worth a straw. Here upon this very
ground lived Dr. White, and here probably he em-
balmed Miss Beswick, and yet, so far as I can dis-
cover, there is no available information upon this
subject. Now, on the 22nd day of July, 1868—1
fear somewhat clandestinely — the body of this
strane^e lady was interred at Harpurhey Cemetery, .
and there left without stone or record. I remember
the day of the interment very well, and a stranger
funeral I never saw. Theie were numerous car-
riages of a better sort which followed the fossil-
corpse, for I saw them pass my door, and only
after pertinacious and rude curiosity obtained the
information I now give. Whether there was a
funeral service read over the grave, or a relative
present, or a single tear shod, nobudy, not even the
sexton, can tell. The books I have consulted have
been legion, but if there be any record I have cer-
tainly missed it. The other day, in leaving the Re-
ference Library, I met a gentleman of good family
and standing, a barrister-at-law, with whom I am
on excellent terms, and told him my difficulty. He
instantly replied, *'I am a relative of the Miss
Beswick, but you will get the information you want .
from Mr. D , solicitor, . who • buried her, and

for eighty years, bcciuse as at present informed I cinnot
admit the stareiueut that the period was a himdred years.
Of CjOTse, i may bu lui&iakeu.

130 Notes and Gleaninus.

you can mention my name, and say yon know
me " I need not tell how I rejoiced at last to have
an authentic reference which would pat -me right.
The interview with the solicitor was singular and
vexatiously amusing. An old man sat benind a table
and writiug-deEk whose urbanity seemed checked by
suspicion, and a curiosity as to whether my ques-
tions involved a fee. He was clearly informed of the
purpose of the visit, but he could not be drawn.
My questions were brief : " Who was Miss Bes-
wick ? Who embalmed her ? And what were the
conditions of this embalment ?" The old solicitor
was too polite to decline to answer these questions,
but assumed ignorance. " I certainly was at the
funeral,'* said the lawyer, '* but it is a long time
afi;o. I know she was buried on the right hand
side of the cemetery carriage-way, but that is
about all I kuow, either who she was, or who em-
balmed her, or anythiog about it." He rose, as
only such a man can, to dismiss his visitor, and,
bidding him a heartless good-morning, returned to
his chair. Many thoughts crowded in my brain as
a result of this interview. How came this
ancient man to be at Miss Beswick's funeral
at all ? And being at the funeral, how comes
it that he knew nothing of the woman he
was burying? The whole thing Icoks very
like a cock-and-bull story. There may be no-
thing in it, but resetve like tliis creates suspicion.
To mend matters, having ascertiined beyond
question the ^Ate of the funeral, I searched the
files of the Manchester papers for some record of
it, but in vain. Not a word could I find, not even
in the City News, which in those days had need to
be glad of news like this. The sexton at the
cemetery would have made me believe that the
body came from Ancoats Hall, but I knew that
story was untrue, and all else he could tell me was
mythical. But I do not despair even yet of getting
to the bottom of this mystery ; especially as a Mr.
Ingham, who I have not yet seen, avows himself a
desceudant relative of this Miss Beswick, and lays
claim to a portion of the estate of that good lady»
now her bequests havey as he contends, been for-

Oldham and Nkiohbourhood. 131

feited to new heirs. So far for the facts and the
surmises. In looking over a number of old books
and magazines I find no record of

ENGLISH MUMMIES.

And yet there have been many of these, as well

as unbnried bodies encased and kept above gronnd

in obedience to the instructions of their several

owners before they departed this life. It was

always said that one of these bodies was kept over

the main entrance of Ancoats Hall, whether of the

new one built by Sir George Murray, or of the old

one once inhabited by Nicholas Mosley, lord of the

manor of Manchester, has not been said. I have

heard also that this body was one of the .Pollard

family, and the story, true or not, was religiously

believed in my youth. A similar legend, as I

have formerly recorded, was connected with Stocks

House, Cheetham. And although I dismissed the

latter story as an old wife's superstition, I have

been taken severely to task by old inhabitants who

in the most positive manner maintain the truth of

the tradition. At Gleavefold, in Cheshire, not far

from Hatherlow, I have seen a brick cupuloshaped

building in a garden, some distance from the house

to which both belong, that was built in conformity

with the will of a rich old lady, who ordered her

dead body to be kept here in a glass coffin, and her

heirs to make a solemn visit once a year to look

upon her remains, on pain of being disinherited.

This love of posthumous fame is but an outcome of

that intense lonflning after immortality for whioh

the human soul groans and travails in pain, waiting

for the redemption of humanity from death. But

about the mummy of Miss l^eswick there is nothing

mythical. Below this grass-grown mound in Har*

purhey Cemetery it undoubtedly lies, and will lief

to all appearance, till the final Easter morning.

• Ayailfl it whether bare or shod
Her feet the path of dat j trod ?
If from the bowers of jny thej fled.
To sooth affliction's humble bed—
If grandeur's ffoilty bribe thej spamed*
And home to Tirtae'i lap thej turned.
These feet witi» angels' wings shall via.
And tread the palafoe of the skjr.

That the art of embalming Is not lost is proved 1^

132 Notes and Gleanings.

many instances. In the museum of the Royal Col-
lege of Surgeons is to be seen the wife of Van
Butchell successfully embalmed by John Hunter by
the injection of camphorated spirits of wine into
the veins and arteries. In the same place the
body of a young woman who died of consumption
is preserved. And during the American war, not-
withstanding the popular belief that the art of em-
balming is lost, the bodies of many soldiers were suc-
cessfully embalmed and sent home. But the prac-
tice will never become common in England. This
inborn war against death sometimes developes
ridiculous eccentricities. The following is a clause
ilia will dated 1782:— "I, William Blackett,
governor of Plymouth, desire that my body may
be kept as long as it may not be offensive ; and
that one or more of my toes and dngers may be cut
off, to secure a certainty of my being dead. I also
make this request to my dear wife, that as she has
been troubled with one old fool, she will not think
of marrying a second." Whether this good woman
did actually carry out the barbarous request of the
testator, who most certainly had a legitimate claim
to call himself a fool, is left unrecorded. But we
have no evidence that he was buried alive. It is
remarkable that most of these lovers of the house
they lived in were women, who having had much
of their own way while alive, were loth to resign
their accustomed prerogative. I have no doub^jb
also that many of them (though this is but surmise)
were inveterate sjpinsters, who either haviog lost a
previous chance of matrimony, or having had no
chance at all, determined to revenge themselves
upon the grave for their lonely and loveless lives.
Poor Miss Beswick, I feel that I could have loved
her myself out of very pity, for her strange little
shrivelled up body taught me to wOnder at death
when I was a boy, long before I had read those
marvellous thoughts on the subject in *' Butler's
Analogy. " if ever I become rich enough I vow she
shall not be without a tombstone upon which shall
be inscribed the words —

Here lies the body of a woman who had her own way
npon earth for eighty years after her death.

Philip Wentworth.

Oldham and Neighbourhood. 133

^atttrbag, lattttars 29tl), 1887,

NOTES.

[57.] Incumbents of Saddleworth.

II.
1603. — Mr. John Morris, minister of Saddleworth.
He was curate of Ashton-under-Lyne in 1598
(Reg. Bk.) Mr. John Backley, of Manchester
(a Rochdale man), preacher at the Collegiate
Church, Manchester, of the Puritan school, by
will dated 26th June, 1593, bequeaths to Mr.
Morrisse, preacher at Ashton-under-Lyne,
'* Luther, his enarrations uppon the Epistles
and Gospels." In 1608 Morris became vicar
of Blackburn, and died 1631. In 1 Jac.
(1603), Oct. 26, he attested the will of his
parishioner, Mr. Gilbert Buckley, of Grotton
Hall.

1609, Nov. 14. — Mr. William Parkynson, minister
of Saddleworth. This name occurs 6 Jac in a
man-iage license addressed to him in that year.
(He signed the register of baptisms, &c., sent to
Chester for the year 1613 J.R.)

1619, Dec. — Mr. Ferdinando Savage, clerk of
Saddleworth. (The register of baptism, ^c,
sent to Chester for the year 1619 is signed Jao
Savage, J.R.)

1627, Circa. — Mr. Cranage, minister of Saddle*
worth, occurs in 1627. He may have been
the clerk licensed by Bishop Bridgeman to
serve the cure of Saddleworth Chapel, 2l8t
March, 1627-8 (Bridgeman's Leeger) (GastreU's
NotitiaCestr., vol. ii., p. 145) (Subscript. 6k.
Chester). An[no] 1628 [a] clerk admitted to
be curate Capelld,de Saddleworth. (Sub Bk Ches-
ter, p. 58) Chetham Society, vol, six., p 145.
There was a monthly lecture at Sadleworth, ap-
parently on the Wednesday, from 1632 to
1662 (Kewcome's Autobiog., vol. i., p. 89).

1635, Feb. 12.— Mr. John Wilson, minister of
Saddleworth. He was resident.

134 NoTMrt AND Glkaxinus.

1644, May 9. — Mr. John Hopkins, minister of
Saddlewortb* flc wad a writer of wills, and
an autiiority in matters requiring a kuowledj^e
of Law.

1647.— Mr. Henry Morres. curate of SivdiUo worth,
probably afterwards minister of Btirule}*. The
oldest remaiuins[ Rei;ist-er Book at Saddleworth
are in his handwriting.

1648, May 3. — Mr. Walkden. Probably a school-
master, and educated at Midilleton School,
being a son of Mr. Walkden, rector of Rad-
cliffe. In 1828 the iron frame (with the date
1650) for the hour glass still remained fixed on
the rifl^ht of the curious oak pulpit. The glass
was gone. It was apparently put there in the
time of this incumbent. He kept the register
books, which date from his institution,
or that of his predecessor. It was an old
custom for the congregation to rise and con-
tinue standing when the Lord's Prayer
occurred in the lesson, and, after the minister
announced the Gospel from the altiur, the con-
gregation responded, "Thanks be to God for
His Holy Gospel." I never noticed this any-
where else. Walkden had been inclined to the
popular views, and had countenanced Prcsby-
terianismaud old John Hey wood.

1654. — Mr. Ralph Wood, B.A. He was licensed by
the Presbytery to Saddleworth 1654. He was.
here in 1662, and Calamy says ho was for a
time remarkably peremptory against Conform-
ity. Afterwards he conformed, and became a
vain and debauched character. (Nonconf.
Mem. , vol. iii. , p. 476. ) He married second , Alice,
fourth daughter of the Rev. John Chadwick,
M.A., rector of Standish, by his second wife,
Elizabeth, daughter of John Ash worth, M.A..
rector of Warrington. * 1666, January 12,
— Raphe Wood, of Sadleworth, in ye County
of York, and Ales Chadwicke, of Man-
chester, daughter of John Chadwicke, late
Rector of Standish, deceased — Married before
Laurence Rostorne, Esq. Witness — Mr.

• p. 34.

OlDUAM and NEIOnBOURHOOl). 135

John Wickens, Mr. John Chadwicke, and
others. She was baptised at Rochdale
20th February, 1630, and bnricd theiv
27th April, 1662, with issue. Nutwith-
standin;; Wood's great zeal for and against
Pj'esbyterianisin, Old John Heywoj*], of Sad-
dle worth, in 1658 had "trudged" about the
** Monthly Exercise" there for more t'lan forty
years, and Mr. Angier, Mr. Xewcome,
and others had encouraged the spirit the
Lord had put upon him. U.e died about 24th
August, 1662, when his woik was quite routed
by the silencing of all those who liad upheld
that exercise. (Newcome's Autobioi^rapby,
v<^ i., p. 88.) Mr. Wood lesigued Saddle
worth, and became incumbent of Ripponden
April 6, 1664, where he was burie<l February
16, 1696-7. (Watson's Hist of Halifax, p. 428.)
His first wife, Sarah, was buried at Saddle-
worth Oct. 7, 1656. John Radcliffe.
For-lane, Uppermill.

[58 ] Registers of Oldham Church.

Baptisms, Anno 1575.
Imprs.

Edmunde mellor ....bap. marcij xxx

Anne whittaker bap. Aprill j

Edward Thorp bap. Aprill x viij

Janne Halle \u«« A-^-ni ^^«;

AUce Coup r*P- ^P"^^^ "^J

Jane whittle bap. Aprill xxviii

Jane winterbothom ..bap. maij j

Ann fiollin worth . . . .bap. maij iij

John Heape bap. maij viij

Anne wylde bap. maij xij

Gnce mellor bap. maij xx vj

Ehzaoeth brearley bap. Junij ij

Jane Cocke '.„., bap. Junij ilij

margret Taylier bap. J an! j xxix

Bobart wol8encrofte...bap. Julij j

Bicbmrd Tetlow bap. Jullj iiij

Dorathe Halle bap. Julij x

margret barnes bap. Julij x v

Jane Sondiffourth....bap. Augustij xxi

Elizabeth bannster ..bap. Adg xxiij

136 Notes and Glkaxing.s.

John Taylier bap. Sept iij

John needle \ ^ ^^^ .

Joane winterbothom/ ^' ^

James whittaker .... bap. octob xiij

niargret henthorne . . bap. nov vij

Richard winterbothombap. Decemb vij

Thomas Halle bap. Decemb xiiij

£lliue Hartley bap. Decemb xxvj

Bichard mathew v...bap. Jan j

Ane Wylde \ . t ::::

Jane meall bap. f eb x viij

EUizabeth winter-
bothom bap. marcij ij

AUice CoUinsou bap. mai vj

Rftffe leeze bap. marcij xxj

Anno 1576. Cristinipis.

James Hallowes bap. Aprill j

Jane Smalles bap. Aprill ij

Raffe Leeze bap. Aprill iiij

Katherine wylde ....bap. Aprill xiij

AUice Hallowes bap. Aprill xxij

G waiter Halkard ....bap. Aprill xxiiij

Robart brearley ....bap. Aprill xxv

James brearley bap. Aprill xxvij

EUizabeth Langley ...bap. maij x

Robart brearley ....bap. maij xviij

Robart Ogden bap. maij xx

margret walker bap. maij xxvij

wiUiam whithead .... bap. June xv

Robart Hobkine . . . .bap. Julij j

margery Halle bap. Julij xiij

Thomas Halle bap. Julij xvij

Anne Coup bap. Julij xxj

Robart whittaker. . . .bap. Julij xxviij

AUice scholes bap. eodem die

Eobart mathew andj^^^ ^ j.

margery wyld J *' © J

James mylnes bap. angustij x^

mary buckley bap. aup; xv

Edmnnd whithead ...bap. aug xjj

Elizabeth whitle bap. sep vj

Elizabeth leeze bap. sep vij

Oldham AND Neiohbouriigoi> 137

Adam Cles[g bap. sep xvj

EUizabeth Hopwod ...bap. sep xxvij

KafFe Tay lier bap. sep xxix

Alice G reave bap. oc tob xx j

AUice G od wart bap. octob x xiij

Doratbe Taylier bap. octob xxvj

Raffe mellor dov bap. vij

Abraham ogden bap. Decemb xxviij

EUizabeth Taylier bap. Januarij x

Edmund Taylier bap. feb v

Richard mathew . . . . 'j

m a r g r e t winter- j-bap. feb xvij

bothom J

Allice heap bap. feb xxj

AUice godwart bap. marcij j

Edmd. Taylier bap. marcij xi

Edward kyrshawe bap. marcij xiiij

G. Shaw.

^atttrtas, /ebruara 5tl), 1886.

NOTES.

[69.] ToNGE Family op Tonob.

Richard ToDge, of Tonge Hall, Gent.

Bapt. May 7th, 1598.

Diecl April 3rd, 1678.

I am deairouB of tracing the iBsue of the abovot

and I shall be glad if any of the readers of '* Local

Notes " can famish me with information as to same

through yoar columns. In **Dugdale's Visitation" of

1664 the only marriage mentioned is as followp»

viz. : —

Richard Tonge, = Anne, daughter of Mr. Thos.
ot Tonge. Chetham, of Nuthurst.

In the Tonge pecligree in the Raines MSS. (also
printed in **' Booker's History of Prestwich ") his
wife is mentioned as having died on Dec. 24thy
1637 (according also to the Middleton Registers).
A second wife occurs, viz., Mary, daughter of — •
Wolstencroft, of Middleton ; marriage Ucense

•p. 212.

133 Notes and Gleanings.

dated Feby. 12th, 1638, the entry in the Middle-
ton register beini;; as follows : —

Feby. 24th, 1638.— Richardus Tonge, gent., and
Maria Wolsencrof t.

On page 34 of ** Local Notes and Gleanings " the

following marria<;e ii mentioned as having taken

place at the Collegiate Church, Manchester :—

1657, Sep. 8. —Richard Tonge, of Tonge, gent, and

widower, and Mary Ogden, of ye parish of

Prestwich, widowe.

Was this the third wife ot Richard Tonge, o£
Tonge Hall ? (I have a list in my possession of
all the Tonge entries in the Manchester Collegiate
Church registers, from the earliest date to 1750,
compiled by Mr. John Owen). The pedigree of
1664 was signed by Jonathan Tonge, the eldest 8ur<
viving son, and it seems curious that no mention
is made of these two marriages in 1638 and 1657,
but as Jonathan was the eldest son by the first
wife and the heir, the natural conclusion is that he
deemed his mother's marriage to be the only neces-
sary entry. I find in the Chetham Mis., voL 1,**
nnder the title of *' A Fragment Illustrative oi Sir
Wm. Dugdale's Visitation of Lancashire " (from a
MS. in the possession of Canon Raines), requesting
the Balive of Salford to warn divers persons to
appear before him at Salford to register their
descent and arms. The following appear under
the locality of

r John Starkey , of Wood, in Boultoa
• TONGE. \ Parish.

I Mr. Jonathan Tonge.

It would appear, then, that Jonathan Tonge was

his father's deputy, or the son was {>ractically the

head of the family.

In the Middleton registers the following entries
of baptism occur. They are abstracted from the
Raines MSS. :—
1617 Jan. 6, Jane, dan. of Richard Tonge, of

Tonge.
1619 Feb. 2, Marie, dau. of Mr. Richard Tonge.
1621 Feb. 16, Anna, dau. of Mr. Richard Tonge,
of Tonge.

* Chet. Soc.i vol. zziy., p. 6.

Oldham and Neigiuioukhoou. 139

1623 Sop. 7, Christopher, son of Mr. Richard
Tongue, of Tonge.

1626 June 11, Dorothy, dau. of Mr. Richard Tonge.

1627 Octr. 23, Sara, dau. of Richard Ton^, of Tong,
gent.

1629 March 14, Dorothy, dan. of Richard Totif^e,
(Dorotliy Tonge, born 1626, only lived 5 days.)

1632 Nov. 11, Elizabeth, dau. of Mr. Rijhard
Tonge.

1633 Dec. 1, Abigail, dau. of Mr. Richard Tonge.

1635 April 25, James, son of Mr. Richard Tonge.

1636 Aug. 12, Jonathan, sonof Mr. Richard Tonge.
(He succeeded to the estate, Christopher and
James having predeceased him.)

1637 Octr. 25, Ruthe, dau. of Mr. Richard Tonge.
Then comes entry of burial of wife of Richard

Tonge, Dec. 24, 1637. It would thus appear that
she never recovered the birth of the last child.
Bathe. The above amounts to twelve children by
Anne Chetham, of Nuthurst.

Then follows the marriage of Richard Tonge,
gent., and Mary Wolsencroft, or VVolstencroft,
February 24th, 1638, and the loUowiug entry
occurs in the Middleton baptisms : —

1638 Dec. 30, John, son of Richard Tonge. No
entry occurs of the burial of Mary Touge, and
the next entry amongst the baptisms of any
child of Richard Tonge is as follows : —

1661 Jan. 16, Christopher, son of Mr. Richard
Tonge, of Tonge. (Christopher born 1623, died
in 1644, so wo may presume that John was
the only issue of his marriage with Mary
Wolsencroft. )

1657 The marriage with Mary Ogden took place,
and the above-mentioned Christopher would
be the first bsue by her ; he would now be
63 years of age.
The baptisms continue as follows : —

1664 April 6th, Elizabeth, dau. of Mr. Richard
Tonge.

1666 May 8th, Judith^ dau. of Mr. Richard
Tonge. (I find buried in 1682, Judith, daugh-
ter of Widow Tonge.)

1671 Jany. 17, Margaret, dan. of Mr. Richard

140 Notes and Gleanixgp;

Tonge.
Then comes the following entry amongst the

burials : —

1678 April 3, Richard Tonge, of Tonge, buried
at Middleton. The Registrar at Chester
writes as follows respecting his estate : — ** The
only document I find deposited here in con-
nection with this person's estate is an in-
ventory of his estate, which bears an endorse-
ment upon it that admon. was panted to his
widow Mary on 6th of May, 1678. As there
was no will left, but only an admon. , no men-
tion is made of the children ; but as he
married Mary Wolsencroft, in 1638 (say, bom

in 1620), and very few women bear children

after 50, or even 45, it is most likely that Mary

Ogden was his widow. It would appear,

therefore, taking all th cse marriages as having

occurred, that Richard Tonge begat a daughter

in 1671, when he was aged 73 years. This

seems rather improbable. To sum up, he had

thefollowing children : — By his 1st wife, Anne

Chetham, 12 children ; by his 2nd wife, Mary

Wolstencrof t, 1 ; by his 3rd wife, Mary Ogden,

4. If any of your readers can give me any

information as to this third marriage, it would

be of great service to me.

W. AsHETON Tonge.
Alderley Edge.

QUERIES.

[60.] Schofields, of Whitfield, in Crompton.
— Can any of your readers give me any information
about the Schofields of Whitfield in Crompton,
parish of Oldham, yeomen ? I have the following
notes about them : — ** Alice, daughter of John
Schoffeld, of Whitfeld, baptised August, 1634."—
Oldham Parish Register Book. "John Schofield,
and Ann, his wife, and a Marv Schofield, widow,
all living at Whitfield, 1654. James Scholfield,
living at Whitfield, in Crompton, parish of Oldham,
and 22 years old in July, 1664. In 1670 styled * of
Whitfield, in Crompton, and heir oF Jamea
Scholfield, of Tongend, in Spotland, yeoman, de«

Oldham akd Neiorboubhood. 141

ceased, who died about 15 years ago.' " — Raines'
MSS. '* James Schofield of Whitfield, yeoman,
1700, left a daughter but no son. Edward
Scholefield, son of Joseph Scholefield, of Whitfield,
late of the parish of Rochdale, by Jane, his wife,
baptised at Shaw, 23rd September, 1739. " — (Oldham
l^arish Register.) This Joseph Schofield probably
sacceeded James Schofield (1700), who left no male
heir, an would be a Schofield of Tongend.

S. H. D. T.

^atttrtap, /ebnxarB 12tl), 1887.

NOTES.

[61.] MiDDLETON GbAMMAR ScHOOL.

Though the present Grammar School at Middle-
ton owes its existence to the generosity of Dean
l^owell, yet there was a free grammar echool much
earlier, as the following extract from the **History
of the Lancashire Chantries " * will prove, the
chantry priest in many places being also the
schoolmaster : —

THE CHAUNTBIE IN THE P'OCH CHURCHE OF

MYDLETON.

Thomas Mawdesley, priest incumbent hereof,
the foundation of Thomas Langley, sometime
Bishop of Durham, there to celebrate for the
souls of the Kings of England, the said Bishop,
and his ancestors, and the incumbents thereof,
to teach one Grammar School free for poor
children.

The same is at the Altar of Saint Cuthbert,
within the parish church of Middleton, and the
same priest now Incumbent doth celebrate and
teach grammar according to the intent of the safd

foundation.

Plate and Ornaments.
First, one Chalice of silver pois, by estimation, xoz.
Item, One Mass Booke.
Item, ij Altar Cloths.

Endowment and RentaL
The said Priest receiveth yearly one annual rent
* Chet. Soc, vol. liz., p. 119.

142 NoTJfis AND Gleaninoh. '

Komg forth of the lordship Kenerdley, belcioging to
the late attaint Monastery of Jervaux, paid yearly
at the feast of St. Martin and Pentecost equally,
cvi«. viij(^.

The same priest receiveth also one annual ren^
going forth of lands lying in Sadbury (Sadberge)^
and whesso in the county of Durham, paid yearly
at the feast of Easter only, xxvjc/. viijcl.

Sum total of the rental, yjli, xujs. iiij

Wherof

In decay of the annual rent going forth of the
lordship of Kenerdley biforesaid, by virtue of a
decree awarded f urth of the Court of Survey by
the general surveyors, dated the 12th day of
February, in the 31st year of the reign of our
sovereign lord King Henry VIII., yearly xiij9. mjd.

Sum of the annual reprises xu}s, iiijcl.

And so remaiueth vj/».

The following notes are by Canon Raines : —
There m ere two chantries in the Parish Church of
Middleton, and both of them situated in the nave.
The first, commonly called *' the rector's chapel,"
dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary and St*
Cnthbert, was founded by Thomas Langley, D D.,
the Cardinal Bishop of Durham. This great pre«
late was not bom at Agecroft, near Manchester
(Baines* Lanr., vol. iil, p. 152), nor was he
descended from an honourable family in the county
of York (Surtee's Durham, voL i, pp. 7 and 56),
but from a family long resident at Langley, in the
parish, and probably descended from the feudal
bouse of Middleton.

The following would be a memorable year in the
annals of Middleton, when, as Cardinal Prinze
Bishop of Durham and Lord Hi^h Chancellor, he
obtained permission from John (Bourghiil), bishop
of Livbfield and Coventry (who on the 22nd
August, 1412, granted and ittued a license to him),
to visit and consecrate the church of St. Leonard,
at Middleton, in the diocese of Lichfield, "quae tarn
In opere lapides quam in tectura atte mirifica
et prepolita, vesttis sumptibus, de novo totaUler
oonstructa est ** (as the Bishop states) ; and also to

Oldham and Nbighbourhood. 133

coosecrate at the same time two altars in the nave,
one dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary and S. Cath-
bert and the other to St. Chad and St. Margaret. In
one of the windows on the north side of Middleton
Church is a fine artistic head of an ecclesiastic, with
a mitre and cioxier, supposed to be a portrait of
Bishop Langley, but more probably of St.Cuthbert^
whom he honoured with many honours.

The Second Chantry, dedicated to St. Chad and
St. Margaret, and consecrated by Cardinal Lang-
ley, in 1412, has long been known as the Manorial
Chapel, and is situated in the South-east corner of
the nave. As Ralph Barton, £sq., who htld
the manor in right of his mother, the oldest co-
heiress of the Middletons, died without issue, in
the year 1406, it seems not improbable that this
Chantry was founded either by him, or in his
honour, but not permanently endowed.

Thomas Mawdsley was the master of the Grammar
School, founded by Cardinal Langley, and also the
incumbent of his Chantrey. It is not improbable,
from a legacy being left by him to ^'Maister
Nowell," that the Dean of St Paul's, and his
learned brother, Bx>bert, bad been educated by
him at Middleton. (See Churton's Life of Alex.
Kowell, p. 199.

His will is dated 1554 :— Thomas Mawdesley
of Middleton Clerk — my sawU to Almyghte God
hys blessyd moder and may d cure Ladye and all the
blissydcumpanyofhevenand my corpsetobe buryed
afore the awtcr on the northe syde in the ChappeU of
Seynt Cndbert under the blew Stone and nere my
Maister Claydon. I wyll that my feofifees tak and
perceive the p'fetts and issews of my mesuage at
Boarshaye yerely to comen to the use and p'fitt of a
preist, conyng in gramar and songe, so longe as the
least euduryes, to mende and uphowde the fre
echoic of Myddleton, and to syngo ir my chappell
for one yere, on the Sondaye, masse of the trenitie,
on the VVednesdaye, masse of salus populig
on Frydaye, masse of the holeye orosse, with
Placebo and Dirige, for the goode of my aawll,
and for the sawUs of John Mawdesley and Alee hyi
iryff, the fader and moder of me the sayd Thomat,

144 Notes and Gleanings.

and for my broders sawU, and to say an Antyphyon
of oar blessed lady e with de profuudls, for the sawls
of my founders and benefactoiirs, and all cristen
sawlls : and I wyll that the sayd honest preist shall
Byng, saye, and praye, so longe as the sayd leaste
shall contynue to my feofifees. And I wyll specyally
that the sayd pteist shall upholde the fre scholes at
Middleton according to the foundac'on. My beste
hors for a mortuarye. To the highth awter \}d»
To the mayntaynens ot the rode lyght ijs. My
broder to bestawe to ye amount of xs, in
grete torcbyes to be brent at my bery-
ing and at my moneth mynde, and Sr.
James Hopwode and Sr. James Buckley to
syns'e, with oytber honest priests, that maybe getten,
and I wyll that they have iijs. iiijcZ. apece. To Sr.
James Hopwode my boke callyd Legenda Sancto-
rum. To Sr. James Buckley my Portfory and Pars
Oculi. To Maister No well my boke? of Saynt
Jerom's workes. To John Bexwyke Chapleyn, my
sersnet gowne furryed with coneye and a litle
syluer pot haulng on the Topp R.B. which hys
fader dyd give mee. To Robert Asheton, parson of
Myddleton my new Testament wryten on parche-
mente. To Edmund Ireland, Usher, my Medulla
Grammatica. To a pore scoUer at Cambriddge by
thadvyce of Mr Warden of Manchestre and
Maister Pendylton xxs. To the cosyn of James
Ka^'e of Thurnham xs. to bryng hym upp to
learnynge and some of my prynted bokes at the
discrecyou of my executor. To the use of the
church att Radclyff a vestmcnte of bawdekyu and
flowers. To the Chappell of OUlam a vestemente of
grene and damaske. To Rychard Mawdeslcy of
Colham in Myddlesex yo^ian my executor a porse
with money in itt. Edmund Hopwode esquyer and
Maister Robert Asheton parson of Myddleton
snperyisours.

In 1548 Thomas Mawdesley was a?ed 54 years,
and the houseling people in the parish of Middleton
numbered viijc. (800). G. Shaw.

Oldham and Neiohboubhood. 145

[62.] Registers of Oldham Church.

Baptisms Anno 1577

James Coup bap. Aprill xxviij

Kdmond Ogden bap. maij j

Slizabeth greave bap. Junij xxiij

Sdmnd Langley bap. Junij xxx

H-obart Jacson bap. Aug xxvj

£dmd JacsOn and\, „ *„„» ^^^n

Allice Halle r*P- ^^^ "^^

fiichard scboles bap. octob xviij

John mellor ^

James bucley........ i-bap. no7em iij

^Elizabeth whitle . . j

inary Taylier bap. no v iiij

Cllzabeth whittaker . . bap. nov x

Robart Turnough bap. nov xlx

John Halle bap. nov xxi

Thora€ksin Crompton...bap. uov xxiiij

£dmund and Jancli t

Thorpe r^P- Ja»^"a'-y ^^'J

Jane Coilinson bap. Jan xxj

John Jacson bap. Jan xxiiij

Ellin whitle bap. Jan xxvj

niary hentborn bap. Jan xxviij

ETdmnd Hoole bap. feb v

Ellizabeth Jacson . . . .bap. feb xvij

Jane whithead bap. feb xviij

Edmond Hall bap. feb xxij

williani Joancs bap. maruij xxiiij

Baptisms Anno 1578.

Henry Teblowe .bap. marcij xxix

Thomas Newton .....bap. marcij xxx

John buckley. ;..bap. Aprill iij

J ohn byesley bap. Aprill xv

Raffe Ashton bap. Junij vxiiij

Kobart mellor and\i ^ a«««o*i; ;;;

Thomasyne Taylierj^^P' Augustij uj

' Alice needle bap. Augustij xi j

Elizjbbeth O^den ....bap. Aug xx

Anne Tetlow bap. Aug xxiiij

Elizabeth mathew bap. Sept xxiij

John Hopwood ftndU ^^^^^ ^j^
• margret wylde ..,«j *^

James Halkard bap. octob xxvij

146 Notes and Gleanings.

Edward Coup bap. octob xxix

William scholes andj^^ ^^^^ ^^-^
Thomas Ogden .... j ^

J ohn Leeze • • . bap. novemb v

Adam Jacson.... bap. nov xij

Catherine winter-

botham bap. nov x viij

Sammel Crompton..\. ^ „^^ v^iii

Elizabeth whitheadr^P- "°^ ^*"J

G waiter hex wicke .... bap. Nov xxiii j

Alice wylde bap. Nov . xxv

llldward Kyrshaw....bap. Deceinb x

nicholas Kempe bap. Dec x vij

Henry e mellor bap. Decemb xxiiij

Joane Tay Her bap. Jannarij vij

James bucley bap. Jan vij

Elizabeth Heyworthe.,bap. Jan xxj

Allice mellor bap. feb vij

Anne and Joane Knot. bap. feb ix

BurialU.

Emmne Bucley acp. feb vij

Annis brodbent sep. feb xj

Allice hilton eodam die

Alex neeld sep. feb xxvif

Addam Clec; sep. feb xxviij

John hiU'On sep. marcij . vj

Jcunes bardsley sep. marcij lii

Joane Knot march xj

Margery Telier march xxiiij

Allice bardley march xxiiij

G. SuAW.

^attti'bai), /ebruarg 19tl), 1887.

NOTES. ,

[63.] Blue Coat School, Oldham.
The following particulars respecting this asefal
institution are extracted from the Charity Com-
missioueis' report and Mr. E. Butterwoith's writ-
ings relating to Oldham. The founder was a hat
manufacturer in tin's borough at a time when the
i.. t trade was flourishing here. We hope to be

Oldham and Neigucoubhood! 147

able to uJLVG a fe\7 farther particulars of this Old-
ham benefactor. T. W. Hand.

Thomas Henshaw, of Higher Groves, Oldham,
hat manufacturer, by his will bearing date 14th
l^ovember, 1807, after making certain devises of
his real estates, and bequeathing certain legacies,
and amongst other things, an annuity of £200 to
his wife, Surah Henshaw, in bar of dower (for
ivhose benefit he had by his martiage settlement
covenanted that his executors should pay an
annuity of £100 for her life), and an annuity of £30
for his servant, Hannah M*Naught, for her life,
and after reciting that it was his intention that a
Dlue Coat Sclioal should be erected at Oldham,
and a Blind Asylum established at Manchester,
under the managemeDt of certain trustees, to
bo thereafter apprinted, gave £20,000 in trust, to
the said trustees, to each of the said charities, sub-
ject to such rules and regulations as should be after-
wards determined ; but he directed that the said
monies should not be applied in the purchase of
lands, or the erection of buildings, it being his ex-
pectation that other persons would, at their
expense, purchase lands, and purchase or erect
buildings for those purposes ; and he gave all the
residue of his personal estate in trust, to the trustees
of his chatities, to be equally divided for the equal
benefit of the charities ; and in case of the deaths
or resignations of trustees, the remaining trustees
to appoint others. He appointed John Atkinson,
Joseph Atkinson and Sarah Henshaw, executors and
executrix to his will. This muniCcent benefactor,
by a codicil to his will dated January 0th, 1808,
gave to the Blue Coat School a further sum of
£20,000, rendering the total for that institution
£40,000, and empowered his executors to ^x the
establishment of it at Manchester instead of Old-
ham if they should think it more convenient.

By another codicil, dated January 14th ,^ 1806,
Mr. Henshaw gave to the trustees of the Man-
chester Infirmary £1,000; to the Lunatic Hoa-
. pital, £1,000 ; to the Lyingin Rospital, £500 ; and
to the Ladies' Charity £500, also at Manchestei:.

148 * Notes and Gleanings.

By a third codicil, dated 0th May, 1808, the
testator appointed the foUowitig geotlemen trastees
of the Blue Coat School and Blind Asylum, namely :
Dauntesay Eulme, Jonathan Beever, John At-
kinson, Joseph Atkinson, George Duckworth,
Nathaniel Gould, Thomas Drinkwater, William
Jones, and Thomas Atkinson, all of Manchester ;
and James Glegg, Thomas Barker, George Had-
field, and John Taylor, all of Oldham, with power
to fill up the number when reduced to nine. . He
also directed that the £40,000 for the Blue Coat
School and the £20,000 for the Blind Asylum,
making together £60,000, should continue in the
houBeorfirm,atOldham, in conformity to and during
his articles of partnership, and for such longer term as
hisexecutorsshould consider theprincipalaudinterest
of the said sum secure, for the benefit of the said
charities, it being his will that the interest of the
said £60,000 should bo paid annually to the trus-
tees of the said charities for their support.

By a codicil made upwards of a year before his
death Mr. Henshaw revoked the devise of a close of
land in Oldham, given by his will to a person there-
in named, ** It being my intention," says the testa-
tor, ** to appropriate the said close for the building
of a Blue Coat School, which I have endowed by my
last will." Uutortunately for the inhabitants of
Oldham this codicil was inoperative through in-
formality in its' execution, but it indicates Mr.
Henshaw's wish that the Blue Coat School should be
at Oldham ; and it is well known that lie procured
plans and estimates for building a school on that
land, and caused various specimens of stone to be
dressed for his approval.

The Testator died on the 4th of March, 1810, and
his executors took steps for proving the will and
codicils in the Consistory Court of the Bishop of
Chester, but Sarah Henshaw, the executrix, and
Ann Hadfield, who claimed to be, as his niece, the
only next of kin to the testator, entered a caveat
against the probate, arid it, therefore, became
necessary for the . executors to institute a suit in
that court for proving them in due form. It appears
probate was afterwards granted, with reservation

Oldham and Neighbourhood. 149

of power to Sarah Henshaw to come in and
prove. lu 1817 Sarah Henshaw and Ann
l£adfield filed a bill in Chancery against the two
executors and the trustees, and the Attorney-General
on their behalf prayed that the annuity to Sarah
Henshaw might be secured, and that the arrears
thereof arising since the testator's death should be
paid to her ; that the bequests to the Blue Coat
School aud Blind Asylum might be declared void ;
and that the plaintiffs, one as widow and the othor
as next of kin, be declared entitled to the residue
of the estate.

The defendants put in their answers, and upon
the heavinfl[ of the cause, July 21, 1818, the Vice-
Chancellor declared that the two legacies of £40,000
and £20,000 were valid, and that the plaintiffs were
not entitled to the residue of the testator's estate^
but that it was well disposed of by the will ; and it
was referred to a master of the court to take an
account of the said estate in the hands of the
acting executors ; and if the residue, after pay-
ments of debts, should not be sufficient to satisfy
the legacies and annuities given by the will and
codicil, the master to calculate in what proportion
they should abate, and also what snms should be
Bet apart to satisfy the lutnre payments of the
annuities, and that all parties should be paid the^r

costs.

The master made a report, dated December 23,
1822, setting forth the will and codicils of the bene-
factor, an account of his debts, legacies, funeral
expenses, the produce of his estate, the mode in
which it had been disposed of, and the portion that
then stood in the name of the Acconntant-General,

On the 8th of August, 1823, the Vice-chancellor
decreed that the annuity of £200 to Sarah
Henshaw, being in bar of dower, should be
paid in full, notwithstandinff a deficiency
oi assets; and that £10,000 Three Per Cents
consols, part of a sum of £26,164 133. lOd.,
life annuities, then standing in the Accountant-
OeneraVs name, should be carried to an account, to
bo entitled Sarah Henshaw's account, to answer her
two annuities of £100 and £200. And that £1,000

150 NoTiM xsD Gleanings.

Three Per Cent, consals, farther part of such Bum,
should be carried to an account, to be called
Hannah M*Naught*8 account, to answer her annuity
of £30, with power on the part of their heirs to
apply to the court as to tlie sums of stock set
apart for the annuitants.

The sum of £71,093 38. 2<1., Three Per Cent,
annuities, was purchased with £55,31958. , part of the
testator's personal es'-ate. It was decreed that the
sum of £3,433 Os. 6d., being interest on a part of
the bequest received by Mr. John Atkinson,'
should be sold, and the money ariung from the
same should be put into the bank to the credit of
the cause, to '*the account of the chaiitable
bequests of Thomas Henshaw, Esq., deceased f '
and that the same should be laid out lu the pur-
chase of Three Per Cent, bank annuities ; the
interest arising' therefrom, and accritlug from the
other annuities, to be laid out in purchasing the
like annuities ; and the residue of the said £26,164
13s. lOd. Three Per Cent, annuities to be sold, and
the proceeds of the sale to be paid into the bank,
to the credit of the cause, and that it should be
referred to the master to tax the costs of all parties,
as between solicitor and client ; and that it should
be referred back to the master to apportion the
money arising from the sale of the residue of the
sum alluded to, after the payment of the costs,
and any other cash placed to the credit of the canse,-
among all the legatees, having due regard to what
they have received, and the amount apportioned
to the charity, to go to the credit of the bequests*
Tlie master also to approve of five new trustees,
elected in the room of deceased trustees, and to
inquire whether any person had given, or would
ffive, land for the erection of a Blue (/oat School
and a Blind Asylum, or either of them, could be
carried into effect, and, if so, in what manner;
with liberty to the trustees and the Attorney-
General to lay schemes before the master for
carryicg the testator's A'ishes into effect.

The said master, by a separate report, dated
July 27th, 1824, stated that the money arising from
the sale of the said residue of £26,164 13s, lOd

Oldham and Neighboubhood. 151

Ihree Per Cent, annnitiefl (after tettiiig apart
8111118 for securing annuities and payment
of costs), and other sums placed to the
credit of the cause, amounted to £10,298
12b. lid., which had been apportioned ac-
cording to the directions, and it appears that, in
consequence of a deficiency of assets, an abatement
of 6 per cent, was made on all the legacies, with
the exception of that of £200 per annum, increased
to £300.

In February, 1826, the stock in the name of the
Accountant • General had accumulated to the
amount of £96,320 Os. 6d. Three Per Cent, consols,
inclusive of the suras of £10,000 and £1,000 stock,
set apart for securing the payment of £300 to Mrs.
Henshaw per annum, and £30 to Mrs* M*Naught,
which sums, upon their decease, were devisable
amongst the legatees, the surplus, if any, to fall
into the residue of the testator's personal estate.

At a meeting of the trustees held 27th February,
1824, it was resolved : — '* That an advertisement
should be inserted in several newspapers inviting
charitable persons to give lands in the neighbour-
hood of Manchester for the objects of the charity ;"
bnt, no offer having been made, it was resolved, at
a meeting holdeu on the 20th July ensuing, to issue
another advertisement, stating : — 'That the trustees
were willing to establish the school at Oldham, if
suitable land and buildings, or money adequate to
the purchase of them there, should be given." In
consequence of this advertisement some proposals
were made, which the trustees did not deem

eligible.

f Continued.)

.152 Notes and Gleanings;

jSatttrtafi, /ebnwrj 26tl), 1886.
NOTES,

[64.] Blue Coat School, Oldhabi.

{Continued.)

At another meeting of the trustees, held on the
3rd October, 1825, a proposal was made by several
gentlemen of Oldham to present to the trustees a
quantity of land not exceeding three Lancashire
acres for a site for the school, and they offered, on
behalf of the inhabitants of Oldham, a sum not leaa
than £5,000, to be raised by subscription, and to be
applied to the erection of suitable buildings. In
November, 1825, a deputation of the trustees
visited Oldham for the purpose of viewing a plot
of land offered to them by Mr. Wrigley and a plot
offered by Robert Raddiffe and Joseph Jones the
younger, Esqs. , and upon their report to a meetinpr of
the trustees, held on the 26th November, 1825, that
Messrs. Radcliffe and Joneses offer was most eligible,
it was accepted, and Mr. \Vri^ley's offer declined.
It was afterwards resolved that an architect should
be employed to view the land, fix on a proper site*
and furnish a sketch of the necessary buildings.
These measures were in progress in February,
1826, and the trustees entertained a hope that they
shculd soon be in a condition to susrgest a scheme
for the approbation of the Court of Chancery.

Mr. Baines says in his History of Lancashire,
1825 : <* It is fervently to be hoped that some
method may be devised to withdraw this immense
sum from the unfruitful embraces of the High
Court of Chancery, and apply it to the use of those
for whose benefit it was intended.

The subscription fund for the erection of the Blue
Coat Schocl was not opened till 1828. Many
l^andsome donations were contributed, and the
nuittber of subscribers, residents and non-residents
of Oldham, was considerable, the sum of £1,332
178. lid. being given by the working classes of the
town.

The architect, Richard Lane, Esq., of Mas-

Oldham and Neighboubhood 153

cbester, having supplied the designs, the builder,
Idr. Bellhouse, of Manchester, commenced the
'edifice early in 1829, and on Easter Monday, April
20, 1829, the first stone was laid by Thomas
'Barker, Esq., one of the trustees, and principal of
the hat manufactory of which Mr. iJenshaw was
the head. The occasion was celebrated by a
splendid public procession.

The work of building was continued till July,
1830, when the erection was suspended for want of
sufficient funds. From a statement of the treasurer
of the Blue Coat School subscriptions, Mr. William
Jones, jun., dated July 31, 1830, it appears the
total amount of subscriptions was £5,660; the pay-
Tnents on account of the building, £5,218 ; the
estimated amount required to complete the school
being £2,357 As. 2d.

At a meeting of the friends of the chaiity, held
at Oldham, August 18, 1830, it was stated that the
intentions of the testator and trustees were to
educate, clothe, ard support 100 poor children of
the township of Oldham, if that place completed
the building.

From July, 1830, to December, 1831, no steps
whatever were taken to complete the institution,
ftod the building remained unfinished.

During the time this now striking public building
was incomplete two poetical appeals were made
to the inhabitants of Oldham to arouse them to
exertions for finishing the edifice. One was en-
titled **A Voice from the School," and the
other ''A Call from the Blue Coat School." The
subjoined is from the latter : —

Another effort malce ; I trust not in vain.
Where wealth and public Bpirit surely rei^n ;
And. not the grent alone— the lesser call ;
A country's weal is sure the work of all :
And purling riTISt that gentle slopes descend.
To form the river's mighty waters tend :
Where fifty thousand kouls can lend a hand.
And forty farthings each in my demand ;
Such apathy insults the miffhty dead.
And can philanthropy be also fled ?
Bare those bright hopes that bode my turrets rise*
Are not yet bbghted, — and portend demise.

In the Christmas week of 1831 about fifty of the
afiopkeepers of Oldham contributed npwardfl of

154 Notes and Glsanii^os

£100 to the Blue Goat School Fund, instead of
giving the annual drams of liquor to their cus-
tomers at Christmas time.

In an address of the Rev. John Holme, clerk, to
the inhabitanU of Oldham, dated March 23, 1832,
he remarks : — " Surely there exists amongst us a
better spirit than to suffer the Blue Coat School to
remain in this state, and thereby incur the impu-
tation * That we began to build but were not able
to finUh.' "

Additional subscriptions were entered into, and
the trustees are said to have succeeded in procuring
a sum from the Court of Chancery, part of the
interest arising from the munificent endowment
fund, for the purpose of completing the noble
foundation.

The labour of finishing the building was resumed
on the 6th of August, 1832, and the extensive pile
was completed April, 1833. During 1833, and part
of 1834,

At a meeting of trustees held in May, 1834, Mr.
William Barratt, of Liverpool, was appointed
governor and schoolmaster ; and subsequently Mrs.
Barratt was appointed matron.

Public announcements were made in April and
May, 1834, of the intention of the trustees to elect
fifty poor boys for admission in the first instance
on the 25th June, 1834.

The first election of boys accordingly took place
on the 25th June, 1834. The fifty appointc^d were
fifteen of nine years, fifteen of ten years, and twenty
of eleven years of age. These young recipients of the
bounty of Qenshaw were admitted into the hospital
for permanent maintenance, clothing, and educa-
tion on Monday, December 15, 1834, and amounted
to 48, two of the number first chossn having refused
to enter the school.

On the 25th of March following, 52 boys were
elected, making the number then in the school
amount to 100. Since that period elections have
taken place twice a year. In May and in November,
to supply the vacancies. The number of inmates
has varied at different times from 48 to 130,

Oldham and Nexgiilourhood. 155

and the onmbcr at present in the house is 68.

The indi>ridua1s eligible for admisBion are poor
boys, of thoroughly hetilthy condition, at tlie stated
ages of from 9^ to 11, and of parents of good
repute, who present memorials from respectable
persons, signed by the churchwarden and overseers
of their townships, with certificates of parents'
marriage, a copy of tlie register of the child's
baptism, and certificates of his place of settlement.
Orphan children are admitted from the ages of 9 to
11. The election of boys is, of course, vested in
the trustees, and they are selected principally from
the borough of Oldham and the parish of Man-
chester. Exceptions are occasionally made in
favour of candidates from other places, but the
preference is given to natives of Oldham and the
neighbourhood. *

About September, 1838, the sum of £8.957 was
paid jbA legacy duty on the will of 2^Ir. Hensbaw.
The endowment is derived from the interest of the
iponeys in the funds, and amounts to upwards of
£2,000 per annuntu

The boys are clothed in uniform suits of blue
cloth, with caps of tke same material ; and they
attend divine service in Oldham Church
every Sunday in processional order. Their
appearance is neat and orderly. The school-
room is a spacious and lofty apartment,
on the eastern side of the building. Much care
and attention is devoted to the training of the
boys, and the course of education through which
they pass is of a practical and useful character,
and, as it oucrht to do, fits them for the pursuit of
honourable avocations, and enables them to take a
f^spectable position in society.

(Cotithmed^)

156 Notes and Gleanings.

^atttrtap, i»artl) 6tl), 1887.

NOTES.
[65.] Crompton Local Names.
Tho following remarks are copied from the
writiDgs of the late Mr. John Higson.

T. W. Hand.

The township of Crom|)ton contains an interest-
ing group of local designations springing mostly
from Aii^lo-Saxon roots. The name of the placer
itself is probably derived from crom, signifying
bowed or crooked, iu allusion to the nneven surface
or undulating contour of the locality. That fea-
ture would stand out more prominently at the time
wh^ selected by the first Saxon colonists for the
purpose of erecting a ** tun " or ** ton " — in other
words, an enclosed homestead, dwelling, or farm-
yard. A&;ricnltural operations have necessarily
somewhat toned down this characteristic feature of
the place, yet still a tolerably large share of *'nps
and downs" are exemplified in its local nomen-
clatore. Some of the elevations are named
Higher Crompton, Higher Shaw, New Bank,
Bank House, Top-o'th'-Knowle (or Knoll), Croat
Knoll, Middle of Brow, Narrowgate Brow, Dog
Hill (in triplicate). Hey Hill, Primrose Hill, Hunger
Hill, White Hill, Green Hill, Hill Top, Top-o'th'-
Scar, High Causeway, Rayshaw Field, &c. The
appellation knoll is derived from the Anglo- Saxon
knol, a small round hillock, or the head of an
eminence. Dos; Hill appears to come from doke,
or duck (to decline), rather than from some incident
connected with the canine race. Scar is also A.S.,
and suggests a bare and rocky place on the side, of
a hill. Rayshaw Field seems to indicate the
enclosure near a small brook running through a
little wood, in a low, marshy situation. Some of
the depressions of surface and leveller portions
are known as Lower Crompton, Lower Shaw, Lower
Fields, Bottom of Brow, Clongh,Clough Yate, Black
Clough, Brushes Clough. Vale (House), Hot Hole^
and Holcbottom (in duplicate). Thatthe district once

Oldham and Neighboukuood. 157

abonnded with timber is evident from appellationa
like the followiDg :— Stockfield, Oak (House aud
Mill), Fir-lane, Park (House), Clough (House),
Brushes Clough, Great Hey, Beal Hey, Hough Hey,
Gorsey Hey, Briney or Brandy Heys, Hey Head,
Hidings, How Ridings, Shaw, Shaw Side, Cowli-
ahaw. Birch Shaw, Little Wood, Orcherry Wood,
Full Wood, and Wood End. In elucidation of the
meanings of some of the foregoing names it may be
worth while to state that Stoc is (A.S.) the trunk
of a tree, and in the name above means a wooded
field; Clough (A.S.)i a wooded valley or cleft;
Brushes, from Brosse (French), a bush, implies
small trees or shrubs; Hey, from Haga (A.S.),
signifies a cleared and fenced enclosure within a
forest, park, or wood ; Hough denotes lii&rh lands
assuming the form of an iu verted horse shoe, or
crescent — the hollow is hough ; gorse (A.S.)
is furze, a prickly shrub ; Briney or Brandy .
Heys appears to commemorate the burnt
hedges ; Ridings signify lands ridded or
cleared of trees and underwood ; How means
a green plot or hill rising in a valley ; Shaw,
locally pronounced as Shay, comes from Scuwa,
(A.8.)» denoting the shade of trees, in the form of a
small wood or thicket ; Shaw Side is equivalent to
a settlement beside or surrounded by a wood ;
Cowlishaw may be the cow pasture hard by the
little wood or thicket. There is abundant evidence
of the peaty condition of a large portion of the area^
of the township in past ages, and peaty or turfy
deposits are but the successors of forests and under-
wood. The wet, marshy state of the land is shown
by appellations such as Primrose Hill, for drainage
eradicates this favourite flower ; Rushy Fields,
Lower and Higher Rushcrotts, New Carr (i.e.
marshy or boggy place). Burn, a brook ; Burn
Springs, Spring Gardens, Pits, Marshes, Moss,
Moss jUate, Moss Hey, Wey cr Way Moss,
Crompton Moor, the sufiix implying peat land
naturally drained or consolidated by time ; Beal
Moor, Moorgate, Shaw Edge, Shore Edge, Burnedge,
anciently Brun (I.e. brown) Edge, New Burnedge,
Bmn, Brun Spring, Brown Spring, Brown Barn,

168 Notes and Glkanikgh.

and Hunger Hill. I'he etymology of Beale Moor is
somewhat uncertain, but probably arises from the
name of the river. Still Baile, ball (Gaelic), signi*
lies a dwellioK, and Bel, Bela, or Baal was the
name of a Druidical god. There is a charter or
quit-claim, tans date, but executed about 1270,
from John, son of Gilbert de Barton, to Robert de
Gredeley (Grellcy), of all his right and claim in
the entire manor of Baiton, with all the hamlets,
&c., appertaining to tho suid manor, and including
" Cromptoucura-Belcmor," Passing forward to
tlie reign of Queen Bess, wo find that in the year
1595 Beile Moor had an area of forty -four acrep. It
appears by another legal instrument that in Sep-
tember, 1354, William do Longley, parson of
Mydleton, owned property in Crompton, Oldham,
and Wernyth. Sir John Byron, in March, 1547,
owned certain estates in Oldham and Cromp-
ton, und it is recorded that in 1560 he
enclosed 260 acres of land on Bmrdsall
Moor. There is a legal document called
a ** Recovery of Sir John Byron's lands in
Lancashire," wliich is dated 1581, and uroonpst
other places includes the following :— Oldham,
Kyton, alkiH Royton, Thorpe, Crompton, Hiltoppe,
Buerdsill, and Bucrdsill Moors. James Butter-
worth, in his appendix to his ** History of Old-
ham," published in 1826, says: **Burnedge, in
Crompton, oii;;inally consisted of two commons,
viz., Biicrdsal and Hathershaw Moors. The former
' of the^c commons was situated within the parish of
Rochdale, but probably extended into Crompton
township. Its etymology may be either the bird's
hill, or Buerd's hill, the eminence belonging to a
Saxon so-called. Hathershaw may be a corruption
of the heathery, the adder's, or even the shaw (i.e.
the grave or thicket) of Athered, an early
Saxon proprietor. Other uncultivated, or only
partially improved, pluts were Rough, Rough Mea-
dow, Staney or Stouoy Lee, or pasture, Staniards
(A.S., stone-guards), and Slcnsides, me-aning the
slanting or sloping sides. Some portions of the
township had been early submitted to agricultural
operations of one kind or another, and had received

Oldham a^t> Nk:ghboubhood. 159

significant designations. To this class appertain
Whitfield (Hall) and Whitefield, probably so named
from crops of wheat rather than the pale colour of
their herbage ; Limefield, from a manuring of lime;
Marled Field, from a coveiing of marl for a like
purpose ; Greenfield, from its vernal contrast with
the brown, sterile moorland adjacent ; Lon|2;field
speaks for itself ; Acre denotes simply an enclosed
field, irrespective of its area ; Pasturea means
grazing lands; Mill Croft (A.S.) implies a small
piece of land near to a mill, in this case doubtless a
woollen mill ; School Croft occupied a position near
the village school ; and Spades Croft. Ketire,
out-of-the-way places seem to have been dubbed
Nook, Kentish Nook, and Kirchanook, which
may have once signified the Church Nook, or a
corner plot of land belonging to the Church ;
but this is speculation only. Leonard-in-Cross
probably commemorates the position once occu-
pied by a wayside emblem of our faith, before
which our pious ancestors may often have
reverentially prostrated themselves. Lane and
Laneside mark out some ancient road and the
dwellings beside it. Koe-gate, unless the prefix
commemorates a family name, is a pleonasm, each
syllable meaning a road ( r street. One edifice is
called the Nether, or nearer, House ; another is
known as Red House, probably from its being an
early brick building. Roses surely must imply a
spot noted for the beauty or profusion of the queen
of flowers^ either wild or cultivated. Jubilee is
the name applied to some dwellings erected at the
time when that festival was held in honour of old
George the Third. Local families leaving their
names behind them are the Crossleys, Tetlow,
Fenton, Brown, Barn, &c. Grains seems to imply
a fork in the roads ; and ^yren's Nest Mill com-
memorates an ornithological event of past times.
There are a few names- somewhat whimsical, such
as Dog-ford, Brook, Runge, Hot Hole, Frolick,
and Ecclebonuz, the meanings of which arc probably
forgotten.

160 Notes and Glean iN<is.

The Taylors of Booth Hall.
At the beginning of last century, and well nigh
into the middle of it, the village of VYhitworfch,
about three miles from Rochdale, was almost un-
known in the threat world. It possessed no striking
antiquities, no traditional legend, no sacred well,
and no remarkable person. It was the birthplace
of nobody particular. It had given to the country
no statesman, warrior, painter, author, or poet. It
was content to be a satellite of its powerful neigh-
bour, Rochdale, and to mildly reflect its neighbour's
reputations and virtues. But before the close of
the century it had become as well known through-
out the civilised world as London itself ; and its
fame too was unique. About the year 1735 a
worthy yeoman of that prolific family of the Tay-
lors came from Worsthorn, near Burnley, in the
parish of Whalley, and made this village his resi-
dence. How he came here, and why, I have not
been able to discover, nor the exact year. His
name was James Taylor, and he was the first of the
famous Whitworth doctors. He seems to have
had no diploma, and to have needed none. What
determined him to select surgical practice as a
means of earning a livelihood is not known. But
we must always remember that learning and qenius
in every obscure village were associated with the
practice of medicine ; and where there was no scholar
but the clergyman, he was in some degree credited
with medical knowledge. The superstition still
lingers. I find myself constantly appealed to for
advice on matters of law and physic, because known
to be a man of the pen, and a sort of bookworm.
Besides, some families possessed ancient recipes;
and herbal ointments, discovered by some sage
ancestor who had had contact with a travelling
wizard, or a wanderiug leech, who, like Melchisedec,
had neither beginning nor end of days. But be
that as it may, old James Taylor was a respect-
able man, who bred two sons whose fame spread
over the world, and into kings' houses. Ihe
eldest of these two sons was John, the otbqr
George ; and they were so equal in attainments'
that if a decision had been taken by their special

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Oli>ham and Neiqhboubiiood; 161

friends, a chairman would have had to give the
csasting vote, and probably John woald have had
it. These two worthy brothers, moreover, were
too attached and too sensible to quarrel, and
althou&;h as separately Independent and aelf-
willed as the rest of brothers, they rivalled eaeh
other only in industry, and all that could bring
grist to the mill. Sometimes brothers get
on best separately, like Jacob and Esao,
where distance leads to better wells and more
pastures for the growing flocks. But in this profe8>
sion there was plenty of room for two fortunes, and
abundant means of fame ; and where two brothers
are neither idle nor quari*elsome, and have plentiy
to do and ample reward for doing it, the stara in
their courses light with them against adversity,
John and George Taylor were not only famona
beyond their own surgery and village, bnt the
people gossiped about them at their firesides and in
the market-place, and at country inns. Their vei;y
failings were construed into virtues, and aneodotee
.grew about their doings as bindweed round a thorn
•hedge. They were ai plain and homely as their
hamblest neighbours, and being somewhat eccentrto
they were the theme and delight of gossips far and
near. A burgery is a rare place for news, and
every day romance ; and invalids are capital oomo
pany when they do not dwell too long and minutely
npou their infirmities. It is quite astonishing
what a number of merry people are afflicted ; and
^how.much fun they can get out of their afflictiona.
I have known two men in neighboaring beds, who
.bad each a leg cut off, keep £k whole ward aliv^
with chaff about their lost limbs and prospective
wooden legs. Neverthless, the two Taylors were
men of ncrvo, who had the rare quality of turning
off their sympathy much as a housewife turns off a
water tap, and could twist a limb into shape, or
out of shape, with a stolid indifference to
the aj^onics of its owner. They despised softness
in patients, and showed theiraversion to it by piling
on the agony, and deriding ^he sufferer. Aud yet,
strange as it may so m, they were humane euough,
as I shall presently show.. And here I must a&k

162 Notes and Gleanings.

Hie reader's pardon for a digression which I hope
In snffioiently interesting. We are in no harry to
tnter the grounds and rooms of Booth Hall yet,
lyQd we are slowly approaching the mansion and
gathering reference all the way, ; so we shall lose
nothing hy chatting of the Taylor family for a
little while longer. The two Whltworth doctors
beeame famous for the cure of cancers, for straight-
ening contorted limbs, and bone -setting. Limping
nnd maimed pilgrims of all ranks flocked from
every part of the United Kingdom, fall of faith
and courage; for the latter was at least indis-
pensable. The doctors were no respecters of
peraons; the richest and the poorest had to take
Hieir turn, and bribes were as usele^iB as importoni-
tieB. It must indeed be an argent case which could
•eeore preference — a case of life and death. It was
no uncomman thing for a patient to wait from
morning to dusk before his turn came. And there
was no hurr> aud no botching. The charge was the
•ame both to rich and poor ; and where the poor
con id not pay, or only partially, the doctors
did not hesitate to take the box round, and
to solicit the contributions of their wealthier
patients. Their house became an infirmary where
oripples and impotent folk crowded daily ; and the
eargery before night, spite of frequent ablutions,
became like a human shambles. But mercy and
deliverance came out of all, and the groans of the
eeffering constantly turned into thanksgivings.
If the patients, like the cleansed lepers, were too
ungrateful to express their gratitnde to the doctors
themselves, they nevertheless spread a good name
ef them far and wide, till noble lords limped from
their carriages into the famous surgery, and sought
absolution for their own, and their forefathers
tcansgressions. John Taylor numbered among his
patients the then Bishop of Durham, Bishop Thur-
V»w, brother to the Lord Chancellor, who as
Fielding tells us, exhibited the doctor to a crowd
nrhich had gathered at the Bishop's palaee to con-
Ipratulate the good man upon his restoration to
Lealth, saying to the unceremonious Lancashire
man, '* Now, Dr. Taylor, come to the win-

Oldham and Neiquboubhood. 163

dow, and let the people see who has
done so much for me." Another of his
patients was the Duchess of Ancaster, one of the
Qaeen's bridesmaids, who took an opportunity of
introducing Taylor to Queen GharloUe, who had
many times expressed a desire to see him. Not
were these rare cases of distinguished patronage,
although the most conspicuous. But spite of fre-
quent contact with great people, the brothers
stuck tenaciously to their homely manners and
rude dialect. An anecdote will well illustrate
this. It was their custom to attend Rochdale
every Monday for the convenience of their patients
in that district ; and as Fielding has left nothing
to be desired in this part of his narrative I am glad
to quote him : — *' On one occasion when John was
returning to Whitworth on horseback late at night
he was attacked in a solitary part of the road by
two highwaymen, who demanded his money, but
who evidently did not know their man. Mr. John
having a heavy stick, struck one of them on the
shoulder and disengaged his hand from the bridle.
The next day the unfortunate footpad went to the
doctor to have his shoulder dressed, which was
humanely done. On being questioned how it came
about he said he had been in a brawl at Rochdaloy
where he had got hurt. He asked the eharge for
dressing, when the doctor went into an adjoining
room, and brought the stick with which he had
inflicted the wound, and said, 'I gave thee the
wound with this stick.'" He also told him he
should not charge him for dressing, nor prosecute
him, and expressed a hope that he would abandon
his course of life. This John Taylor was a great
iKntiquarian, especially fond of old coins and port-
able relics, as well as a reveller in the literary dust
and cobwebs of old times. Every good man has
a golden leisure in which he wanders and revels
alone. One genius for figures finds unutterable de-
light in mathematical problems and solutions,
which are to him mental, athletic exercises ; another
indulges in sport, which gratifies his love of free-
dom and adventure ; his love of physical action^
and of skilful achievement. And it is this pro*

164 KoTKS AND Gleanings.

pensity, wbaterer it be, if it is not positively
vicious, which is the best assurance of a constitii-
tional. goodness of nature. But we are getting
nearer to Booth Uall, and I must curtail my narra-
tive; John Taylor died on the 26th .^annary, 1802,
«ged 62, leaving two sons, James and John, who
followed their father's profession. James, the
elder of the two, died at 58, in 1826, and John, the
younger, died at 31, in 1803, leaving an only son,
another James, who carried on the ancestral
business with unabated success, and died in 1848,
■aged 51 years, leaving an only son, well known in this
<x>untry as James Eastwood Taylor, who passed the
College of Surgeons in London, in 1845. And what
became of George, the brother of the first John ? He
<lied in 1804, leaving two mus, one . of whom died
unmarried, and the other, James Joseph Hague
Taylor, married the only daughter and heiress of
Anthony Crossley, £sq.,of Todmorden Hall, where
■at the beginning of the century he lived and died,
leaving four sons, only one of whom survived namely,
James Taylor, Esq., J. P., of Todmorden Hall.
All this story, as the reader will see, stops short
of Booth Hall ; and indeed has only remotely to
do with it ; but it could not be omitted without
loss of interest, and of a full knowledge of the
family. To tell the truth, Edmund Taylor, the
first of the celebrated Oldfield-lane doctors, was a
brother of the first James Taylor, who died in 1777,
-and whose descendants I have just been describiog.
He originally resided at Besses-o'th'-Barn, in the
township of Pilkingtou, and parish of Prestwich.
There is not a bit of the foregoing description of
the Whitworth doctors which does not almost
literally apply to him and his successors. The
same lou^Ii speech and manners ; the same system
in treating his patients ; the same vigorous com-
mon sense ; the same extraordinary skill ; the same
humanity, mingled with potent and wise severity ;
the same success ; and the same popularity and
world-wide fame, were the qualities and inherit-
ance of the first Edmund Taylor, whose fame still
lingers among the ancient people of Lancashire, and
will linger for many a generation. Edmund Taylor

Oldham and Neighbourhood. 165

(always called ** Ned " by the common people) pur-
chased Booth Hall and its estate fron^ his friend,
Dr. Henry, for his posterity. There is no com-
plication about the pedigree of the Oldfield-lane
doctors. Old Ned, and young Ned, and young
Ned's son bring us face to face with our
times. John Taylor, Esq., J. P., who so
recently died, at the age of thirty nine,
leaves behind him a son to inherit the estates who
is not yet of age. Theie are other valuable
estates besides those of Tk>oth Hail in Cheshire,
and at Bath, which belonfi^ to the family, and
which together yield a revenue greater than that
of many a foreign potentate. At present the
widow lives away ; but it is genetally understood
that when the young heir comes of age he will
reside at Booth Hall, and expend a large sum in
restoring it to its original beauty. The hall and
grounds are still very beautiful. Along the
winding carriage-way are statues, holding in their
hands lamps to light the way to the hall on festive
occasions. They startle the stranger at first sight,
standing, as they do, like apparitions, in robes of
immaculate lawn. The gardens have no preten-
sions to grandeur, having been somewhat neg-
lected ; and the grass of the lawns is growing rank.
But, oh what a charming screen of bower and
shrubbery, redolent of woodland odours, and full
of summer aroma, covering retreats, and sly bits of
nook, where only the robin intrudes— nooks and
retreats where love tales come like nature, and the
spirit is overburdened with satisfaction. The
solitude is as perfect as if it were a region a
hundred miles from human habitation. The
mingling melodies and odours, of birds and
flowers ; and that indescribable murmuring
of bees and insects, thrills the summer
air with strange memories of bye-gone days and
happy boyhood. The little lodsre, half buried
in the trees, is empty. A little outlay
would make it a charming cottage for poet or
hermit ; and if the new squire could only be in-
duced to incur this outlay, when he comes of age,
and to forego all claims for rent, I shall be most

166 NoTiis AND Gleanings.

happy to be both poet and hermit, and as a proof
of my fealty to him to sabscribe myself every year
with sincerity his humble and obedient servant.

^aturbag, ptarcl) 12tl), 1887.

NOTES.

[66.] Blue Coat School, Oldham.

(ContinuuLj

Amongst the papers of Edwin Butter worth, the
historian of Oldham, now preserved in the Free
Reference Library, Oldham, we find un account of
layinflr the stone, and the procession, April 20th,
1829. The first stone of the Blue Coat School was
laid on the above day. The procession was first
formed in the Market-place, Oldham, and
moved along High-street, Yorkshire-street, Mumps
Brook, turning up Shoreditch, and passing through
Higher Moor, turned to the scite of the intended
building, near Horsehedge Hall. When the procession
arrived on the scite the veterans were placed on
the north side of the north side of the building ;
the different bodies of Free Masons, Orange Men,
Druids, on the east ; and the (gentlemen, Friends to
the undertaking, &c., on the south side; the
stone was then laid with the usual for-
malities by Thomas Barker, Esq., ot Frank
Hill, near Oldham, amidst tbo plaudits of
the hundreds surrounding the spot. This being
finished at the blowing of a horn, a salute of
twenty-four guns was fired from an eminence above
by the body of the Royal Veterans. This being
done, the national anthem ot **(j!od save the
King" was suog with great edat ; another salute of
twenty-four guns was then fiied into the air,
and these ceremonies concluding the laying
of the first stone, the procession then moved
along by Pleasant Spring, Red Tom Nook, Hen-
shaw-street. Barker-street, Roy ton-street, across
Bent, through St. Domiugo-street, across Man-
chester-street, through King-street, up George-

Oldham and Neiohboubhood. 167

street, or, as it is commonly called, Bardsley Brow»
and so into the Market Place again. Here a circle
of . the procession was formed, in the centre ct
which a band of music performed some most lively
and enchanting airs. This being concluded, a
shout, hearty and welcome, concluded this memor-
able day at about half-past three in the afteis
lioon. After these ceremonies were ended, tht
different bodies of Veterans, Free Masons, Oran^
Men, Druids, proceeded to their own lodge honseB»
where the good dinners provided by the hosts, a flow
of ale, and pipes of tobacco served to render them
happy and comfortable after a long, hungry, but
interesting perambulation.

ohdeb of the pbocessiom.

1. Royal Body pf Oldham Veterans, with two
flags.

2. Body of Free and Accepted Masons, with a
flag.

3. Body of Constables and Police of Oldham.

4. Mr. Bellhouse (the contractor), with a ulver
trowel.

5. Mr. Hunter (the superintendent), withapquarttk

6. Mr. Lane (the architect), with the plans.

7. The Gentlemen and Friends to the under^
taking, four and four.

8. Thomas Barker, Esq.

0. Two flags, one an Orange and the other a
Britbh.

10. A Band of Music.

11. The Body of Orangemen of Oldham, foiir
abreast.

12. The Body of Druids, four and four, in their
dresses.

[It may be worth observing that a difference of a
very trivial nature arose betwixt the order of tha
processions — with the Oddfellows — they thinking
they ought to have been the leaders, and the other
bodies thinking not. The Oddfellows^ therezore»
proceeded after the general procession, but kept at
a distance behind. ]

13. Two Flags bearing the insignia of Oddfellow^
shipb

14. A Band of Music.

168 NOTKH AND OlKANINCSS.

15u The Oddfellows' Body, two and two, bearinc^
flugSs staffs, globes, doves, and other emblems.

The Oddfellows terminated their procession in
the Market-place, after the other bodies had lef 6
Ihe ground, by forming a circle, in the centre of
which the band enlivened them by airs. After
Ihii the whole body sung '* God Save the Kini;,"
Ihen gave a shout, and so separated to their lodge-
houses. Thns terminated the day.

[67.] Reoistebs of Oldham Church.
Baptisms Anno 1579.
John brearley • bap. Aprill xxvj

Hafl(o Travis \.„^ ^-. .

Johnlees f^^' "^^'^ J

« Bobart and John^t _. ..

•methente r»P- """J "J

Bobart Langley bap. maij • ix

Georg walker bap. maij xiij

Edward Taylier bap. Augustis xxiii j

mary Leeze bap. octob iiij

mary kershaw bap. Octob iiij

John wylde bap. octob ix

Sarah Taylier. bap. octob ix

Jfidmnnde whittaker..bap. octob xiiij

Fleeter Halle bap. octob xvj

Richard winterboth..bap. octob xxv

JuflBoa Halle bap. novemb xxix

Amary Halle • • bap. Docemb xiij ,

Sussana scholes bap. Decemb xxvij

Jsabell needle Jan xxiii j

Anne Tetlow marci j iiij

Anne stansfeld bap. marcij iiij

Bobart Jacson bap. marcij v

Anne ogden bap. marcij xiiij

Anno 1579. Burialls.

John brearley Aprill xxvifj

Arther scholes may iij

Bobart langley sep. maij xi

Elizabeth hawworth««sep. maij xx

Qennetwinterbothom..sep. maij xxviij

Georg walker • • sep. Junij iiij

Oldham anv Neiohbourhooi) 169

Nicholas bardsley . . . .sep. Junij x

James Tumoughe • • • . sep. July x

Will mellor Julij xiiij

John lynney Auguste iiij

Bobart Smethurste .. Aug v

will wyld Aug viij

George sftiyth Au;r xxv

Henry winterbothom.. An? xxv

Edward Tay Her Aug xxviij

Katherin brad bury .. Sept iiij

Jane bucley Sept xxj

A child of Richard

brearley Sep ix

A child of John wyld . • octob xiiij

Agnus bucley octob xx

Agnus neeld octob xxj

Henry bucley Dec x j

Anne Taylier • Dec xix

Jane ogden Jan j

ux John Cleaton Jan xx

Ba£fe Collinge Jau xxv

Elizabeth schoffeld ... marcij v

No entries of baptisms and burials for the year 1580.

Baptisms Anno 1581.

Allice whittaker ....bap. marcij xxv

Sammell Jacson bap. marcij xx vi j

Richard win terbothom. bap. marcij xxvij

George Tetlow ....li a -n

Georg hilton ........ .bap. Aprill xix

GeorgAshton bap. Aprill xx

.Jane Ashton \u„« A««:n ^^»

Georg newton /^*P- ^P"" ^^*

Thomas Jacson bap. maij iiij

John Hilton &\

Alice bexwicke ../bap. maij xxiiij

Margret wolstencrofte.bap. maij xviij

Susanna Taylier bap. Junij iiij

Abraham ogden bap. Junij vij

mary Streete bap. Julij vij

James wylde bap. Julij ix

Allice Haslom bap. Julij ix

Anne Jacson bap. Julij xxiij

XXIX

170 Notes and GiiEAxixo.s

Jane halle bap. Aug vj

John Crompton &\k.^ *„„ ^^„«

Alice Tarnoughe...*bap. sept iij

Raffe whitle ^

Jossua whitle and j-bap. sept xviij

Jane Taylier J

Alice, bastard ofli ^ „^ .

Huge mellor T^P' «^P*

Jane Taylier bap. nov v

Georg leeze bap. nov v

Josephe Crompton, "^

Sammell Thorp, K „ „^„ ».

Alice heap, & pP' "°^ ^'^

Ane brearley ..;... J

margery CoUinson ...bap. novcmb xix

Alice whittaker ...bap. novem xxx

Hobart Lyllye bap. Decemb viij

nicholas Coup bap. Decemb xj

Ellen smy th bap. Decemb xij .

mary Chetham «...bap. Decemb xxij

John whithead bap. Jannarij iij

No entries of Burials for the year 1581.
^o entries of Baptisms and Burials for tneyear 1582.

G. Shaw.

Jhinxi&tt, iftarcl) 19tl), 1887.

NOTES.

[68.] HOLLINWOOD SOHOOL.

We are indebted to the kindness of H. L. Hoi-
lingworth, Esq., of Hollinwood, for the loan of the
very interesting document containing the list of
subscribers, with their several amounts on one side
of the paper (in three columns) and payments on
the other. G. Shaw.

An account of money received and expended for
the erecting of a school and other buildings at
Hollinwood from May Ist, 1786, to September Ist,
1787 :—

Oldham and Njcioueourhood.- 171

Beceipts. £ 8. d.
{First cvlumn,)
"By Barance in hand from tlie 1st year's collec-
tion 32 19 8

£y Interest on B«. from October 1st, 1785, to

M:iv Ut, 173'3, at 5 p. cent 18 10

Bj Ualliuco of Offertory Money in hand undts-
))osol uf, wii. ucciimulated Interest thereon to

M:iyl8t,1783 24 9 CJ

Br offertory monoy reed, of Mr. 6. Furrand to

Miyl3t. 1786 2 15

By Do. from May 1st, 8S. to^p. 1st, 87 1 18

By a Benefaction from Mrs. Badcliffe, being the
Surpliis of the Money that remained from the

Sale of the Estate at Cow Hill and Interest ... 12 14 6
By Cash of Saml Clowes, junr.,E8q.,the Surplns

of a reckoning , , 1 11 6

Mrs. Giegge 10 6

Mr. Ja:ues Travis 10 6

Mr. John Andrew 10 6

Mr. John Hughes 10 6

Mr. J. Hyde 10 6

Mrs. Hyde 10 8

Mr. David Howarth 10 6

Mr. Danl. Hilton 10 6

U^r. Eicbd. Taylor 10 6

Mr. Wm Taylor ,... 10 6

Blr.Thos. Holt 10 6

Mr. George Taylor 10 6

Mr. Henery Mills 10 6

Mr. Thos. Asshton 10 G

Mr. Jas. Lees 10 6

Mr. JohnClogg 10 6

Mr. John Lees 10 6

Mr. Andrew (Low Side) 10 6

Mr. Whitehead (Myd) 10 6

Mr. James Fletcher 10 6

Mr. JohnLeos 10 6

Mr. James Tetlow 10 8

Messrs. E. & W. Qarlick 10 6

Mrs. Jane Stott 10 6

Mr. G. Cooke 10 6

Mr. Wood 10 6

Mr. James Taylor 10 6

Mr. John Buckley 10 6

Mr. Saml. Scholes 10 6

Mr. Major Bamford 7 6

Mr. Eobt. Farrand 5 6

93 4

(Second column.)

Mrs. Eadclyffe 5 5

Sir Watts Horton, Bart 5 5

B. G. Hop^ood, Esqr 2 2

172 NoTBS AXD Glbaninos.

£ 8. d.

J. Howarth, Esqr 5 6

T. B. Dalley, Eaqr 5 6

W. Barrow, Esqr 6 5

The Eor. J. Lyon 5 5 8

The Rev. J. Darby 5 5

Mr. Kershaw 5 5

Mr. Worthington 5 5

Mr. Jo. Brierley 5 5

Mr. Jo. Sohofield .-. 5 5

Mr. Croutchley 4 4

Mr. Lees. PAirfleld 2 2

Mr. Abm. Taylor 2 2

Mr. Jo. Denton 2 2

^r. Jams Batterworth 2 2

Mr. J. Dunoaffe 1 11 6

Mr. Wm. Booth 1 11 8

Mr. Jas. Taylor 1 11 6

Mr. Jas. Lawton 1 11 6

Mr. Wm. Eoe 1 11 6

Mr. John Tetlow 1 ll 6

By Sundry Fines 14 0.

J. Fickford, Esqre 110

MissEadclyffe 110

Miss M. Eadclyffe 110

Mrs. Molly Lawton 5

Mr. N. Winterl;>ottoin 5

Mr. Hohson 5

Mr. Thos. Hyde 5

Mr. Jos. Marlow 5

Mr. Jas. Tetlow 5

Mr.SamLLees 5

Mr. Thos. Taylor 5

Mr. Danl. Wilde 5

Mr. Thos. Chadwicke 5

Mr. Whitaker (Poxdenton) 5

Mr. G. Mellalue 5

Mr. Jacob Bayner 5

Mr. Jos. Woofferdale 5

Mrs. Catherine Woofiferdale 5 0|

Mr. Bobt. Byder 5

Mr. John Clayton 5

Mr. John Newton (Slater) 5

Mr. Saml. Less 5

Mr. Jonathan Bradley 5

Mr. Wm. Lowe 5

By Sundry Small Sums 7 6

Messrs. Mills and Kershaw 4

Mr. Mope .- 2 2 2

Mr. James Bayner ^ ^ z.

Mr. Saml. Schofield 2 12

Mr. Joseph Ogden 9 5 5

Mr. Wood 2 6

92 15 6

Oldham and Neiohboubuood. 173

(Third Column.)
A Lady tmlcnown

W. Hibbert, Esq.

Seyd. Mr. Ethelston

Bar. Mr. Jackson ,

Mr. Lawsoa

Mr. Bramall

Messrs. Henshaws ,

Mr. James Lees

Mr. James Newton

Mr, Thos. Offden

Mr. E. Taylor

Mr. Sothwell

Mr. Jas. Sohofleld

Mr. John Schofield

Mr. Wright

Mrs. Harrop

Mr. B. Hibbert

Mr. W. Walker

Mr. Bobinson

MnkBobinson

Mr. John Ashton

Mr. Fildes ,

Mr. Joh^ Whitehead

Mr. Woolsenoroft

Mr. Abnu Fletcher ,

Mr. Wilde (Manchester) ,

A Lady unknown

Mr. Wm. Booth (3 Crowns)

Mrs.Bi8hton

Mr. Bishtoo

Mr. George Beswick

Mr. John Greaves

Mr. John Ogdem

Widow Taylor

Mr.JohnHalUwell.

Mr. James Whitehead

Mr.Theo Schofleld

Mr. Geoige Booth

Mr. John Bmethuret

Mr, Nicholas Dentoa

Mr. Simeon Whitehead

Mr. James Worthing ton U

Mr. L Lord Flagger

Mr. James Tetlow

Mr. Thomas Winterbotcom

Mr. Jonathan Harrop

Mr. John Bcholes

Mr. Uenry Booth

Mr. John Walker

£ s. d.

1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1

2
2
2

2
2
2
2

2 6

6
6
6

Total received

30 18

92 15

93 4

6
6
Oh

£216 18

174 NoTKS AND Glbakings.

Examined k approved by ns,
Edmund Hksxeth.
Balph Kebshaw.
Txos. OoDxisr.

Pathbhts. £ 8. d.

Workmen's Wages 67 18

Mr. Croatohley f or Brioks 26 6

Brioks from other Eilnes 4 10 2

Mr. Wildes Bill for Timber 45 9 6

Sir. John Clegff f or do 6 14 4

Lime, £8 4s. 2d. ; Blacking do., 8s. 6a 8 12 8

Sand,£268.2'J.; Hair,£2 0s.7d. 4 5 1

Stonemason, £2 6s. 2d. ; Slater, £15 7s. OL 17 13 2

Flaggs, £8 10s. Od.; Bidging Stones, £1 Is. 8d.... 9 11 8

Glazier 9 13 5

Mr. B. Farrand. Ironmonger 6 6 6

Joseph Lowton's Bill 2 10

Bearing 16

Lats, kc 2 2 9

Joiner's Bills 2 8 6

Glue fto. 2s. 6d. Pointing 14s. 6d 17

Grate 188.^. Locks &c. 6s. 6d« 15

James Taylor for Posts 12

Carting & Carriage 12 2 8

Coals 17 6

Wheelbarrow 6

Quicks 13

To Setting do. and ditching 8 8

Lime & Working Wagos to removing necessary. . . IBS

G. Cook for Work to Spouts 18

Painting 2 6

Timber for Spouts 18

Ironworktodo u 8 4

To Mr. Harrop & Wheeler for advertising for

Masters : 8

To Masters Wages exclusive of the money given

by the Trustees of Mr. Walker's Chanty 12 8

Total Expended 23o 11 8

Total received 216 18 o

Ba''lanoe due to the Bevd. J. Darbey 2113 8

Examined & appioved by rs.
Edhtjvd Heshetu.
Balph Kgsshaw.
Tuos. Oglkk.
March 2Uh, 1801.

By Cash to baUance the above accouut £^1 13

J. Dabbet.

Oldham and Neiohboubuood. 17&
jSattttbas, |ttarcl) 26tl), 1887.

NOTES.

[69.] HoLUNwooD School.

The following also relates to the school : —
Know all men by these presents. That I,
Thomas Taylor of Hollinwood within the Parish of
Frestwich in the County of Lancaster, school-
master am held and firmly bound unto the Kevd
John Darbey of Manchester in the said County of
Lancaster, Clerk, Minister, or Carate of the Chapel
of Hollinwood aforesaid in the sum of One Hun-
USED Pounds of lawful money of Great Britain to
be paid to the said John Darbey or his certain
Attorney, Ezors, Aministrators, Assigns. For
which payment to be well and truly made. I bind
myself my Heirs Exors. and Administrators firmly
by these presents. Sealed with my seal. Dated
this Second Dav of June in the yoAr of our Lord
One Thousand eight hundred.

The condition of this obligation is such that it
the above bounden Thomas Taylor do and shall at
any time hereafter, after six months' previous-
notice or warning in writing, shall be given unto him
wider the hand of tbe said John Darbey, or of his
■Dccessors for the time being, ministers or curate»
of tbe Chapel of Hollinwood aforesaid, surrender,
and deliver up unto the said John Darbey or to hi»
tnooessors as aforesaid, full, quiet, and peaceable
jpossession of the messuage or dwelling-house and
achoolrcom, with their appurtenances situate in
Hollinwood aforesaid, and now occupied by the
mid Thomas Taylor. And that without fraud and
further delay. Then this obligation to be void ar.d
of no effect. Otherwise to be and remain in full
force and virtue. Thos. Taylor.

Sealed and delivered
(being first duly stampt)
in the presence of
Thos. Ogden.
Thos. Wboe.

£. Butterwortb, in « The Charities of Oldham,"

176 Notes and Glkanikus.

remarks about HoUinwood School : — ^A school and
dweUing-house for the master were built by sub-
scription (1786) ia HoUinwood, in Oldham. By an
award of the Commissioners for inclosing common
lands, dated 1804, a plot of 2r. 26p., including the
school site and house site, were granted to certain
gentlemen as trustees. The Rev. John Darby«
curate of HoUinwood, devised by will, March 14th,
1808, to the Rev. James Lyon and others, as
trustees, £100 on trust, to be placed on real or
Government securities, the produce to be appUed
to the benefit of the school. Miss l)arby9
sister to the Rev. J. Darby, gave, by
will, £30 for the advantage of the schobL
This was laid out in buildiug a small dwelling-
house and workshop, the rent for which is received
by the schoolmaster, who is the occupant of the
house adjoining the school. About 1816 an
addition was made to the school, for the accommo-
dation of the scholars taught on Sundays, but the
present Sunday school of HoUinwood Chapel is an
elegant buUding near the chapel ; and there is no
Sunday instruction in the old school, except as an
occasional aid to the new one. Eight poor chUdren
of HoUinwood are taught reading, writing, and
arithmetic free, and twelve youngsters are in-
structed in reading for the £7 received from
Walker's Charity. These children &re, by the
permission of the trustees, appointed by the
minister of HoUinwood.

[70.] Registers of Oldham Chubch.
Anno, 1583, Cristinngs,

Edward Crocper bap. marcij xxix

mary Halle 1

mary mellur J" bap. marcij xxxj

Susanna Thorpe j

Dorathe bucley J-bap. Aprill xiiij

■" J

John Leeze bap. Aprill iij

Anthony mellor. . . . ^

Dorathe bucley -

Thomassin whithead

Johnbrearley &....\, . .,, .

Anm mellor r^' -^P^"^ **J

Henry leeziB & It .. .

John Tetloxv T^'P- ""="1 "

Oldham and Neighbourhood; 177

Anthony hiltou bap. maij xij

Joscphe o^den bap. maij xiz

mary Tay lier bap. maij xx

Adam ogden ..bap. Junij ix

Hebecka Taylier bap. Junij xxiij .

Alice Crompton bap. Janij xxx

Alice Alisson bap. Julij vij

srX]5iS? *::}'»p- J««i -i

James scholes bap. J ub* j xxj

Kobart Jacson ^

margrct Tavlier.. . . Ii ^ t ,.. ^^^zz

Anne Halle | ^^P' ^"^^J ^^^

Jane brearley ^

Raffe Sondifforth . . ^

An Houlden & V bap. Augustij xj

AUice Smyth ....... j

Georg Tavlier l , .

Edmund ieeze .• / ^f' "^"« "J

John Coup bap. Aug xviij

Jane Leeze bap. sept xviij

John hopwod bap. sept xxij.

Diana Tavlier &\ %

Alice Taylier )bap. aep s«x

Ane Jacson bap. octob ij

James whitbead bap. octob iiij

Lawrence Aahton\, „ ««f«K „;

& margery Cudworth )^^' °^^°^ 'J

mary wyld "^

margret ogden & |^bap. octob xiij
Joanc Turnoughe . . j

Jane scholes bap. octob xxr j

Arther Hobkine &1 u..^ «^„«.^u ^

. ^ ^ 4,1 ?bap. noveino i

Anne smyth j

Anne winterbothom ^ r „„ „, ,.«^i, ^:^

& Jane Hilton T^P* "^'^"'^ ^'^

Jannc Chaderton bap. novemb xxiij .

John Jacson ^

Snssanna mellor ^bap. nov xxiij

& Jane Taylier .... J

Sussannah mellor bap. Decemb j

John wyld &\baD Dec viii

Edmund Crompton j"*P- ^^^ ^"^

178

Notes and Glbanings.

Sammell whittaker \ .
kGeoTK Schole8.../"^*P'

Mary hopwod bap.

Nicholas hopwod bap.

Ellizabeth schoffeld . . . bap.
JIargret mellor bap.

kenry wyld ^

henry whittaker Vbap.

John Jacson J

James wyld ^

Amir.ary whittaker ■ ^^
James wyld & | ^'
An whittaker J

Alice halle ^\bap
vargaret hunter j ^'

James wolstencrofte]
Borathe Greaves ... -bap. feb
Thomas Xaylier j

Anne Leeze bap.

l>ecemb xv

Deoemb

Decemb

xxj

Jan

•

Jan

viij

Jan

feb

Alice haslom & \ Ko >n
Joseph symth j °*P-

Ather werrall *\k«n
Bamyon heamshaw / ^'

Baffe hoalden &\k^^
Janne Tetlow /^*P-

feb
Feb

marcij

Anno 1583,

}
}

will bncley

John newton

nx Cristopher wyld.
Baffe. Chetham

Jssebell Jacson

henry mellor

£Uinn bexwicke

A child of Edmd
mellora

Thomasin whitehead ..

Jane bucley

Margery Taylier . • . .

Kicholas wititerbothom

Aliicc bocley

Katt soodi [forth

Sasanna Leeze

J5dw.ard Coop

vx Jo. henthorne . . • •

Joane blackley

Burialls.
marcij

marcij

marcij
Apprill
^ Aprill

Aprill

Mail

may

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Jij

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Oldham and Nkiouboitbhood.

Anne henthome Aug

£dmnd Leeze ..•••••• Aag

Margret haUe ••••••.. Angaste

jennet winterbothom.. sept

Ann Greave ootob

George hnrste octob

JohnlUnsley \ ^^

Ann whxtaker. ..«••/ ^«v««»

Elizabeth halle • • nov

Elizabeth Hilton •••• Dec

Johnwyld Dec

Janne halle Dec

Elizabeth Tay Uer Jan

mary whittaker ffeb

Batfe Cropp feb

James wylde Jan

Johnwyld ffeb

Grace Taylier • • . . . ffeb

Richard Cheaney • • • • feb

John bucley ••• march

Anne Kyrshawe •••• marcij

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^atttr&«s, ^pril 2tt4, 1887.

NOTES.

[71.] Some Account of Royton Chapel and its

notabilia.

Royton is a chapelry in the parish of Prestwich,
bet before the erection of the present chapel (or
church) was dependent upon Oldham or Shaw for
what ecclesiastical benefits it enjoyed. The rite of
the chapel and graveyard were presented by Thomas
Percival, Esq., of Royton Hall, and the structure
itself was '* erected by the voluntary contributions
of several pious and well-disposed persons in
Royton and its neighbourhood." The consecration
took place July Ist, 1757, when the chapel was
committed to the tutelage of St. Paul, the apostie
to the Gentiles. The edifice is an oblong, grey-
slated structure, built of brick, and ornamented

-IBO Notes and Gleanings.

with stone cornices, and quoins at the angles.
Each side is pieroed with twelve windows,
divided into two equal tiers. The western
end comprises a slim tower, flush with the
chapel gable to the height of three stages, which are
divided by strong courses of dressed stone. The
upper stage is embellished by a clock with four
dials, and is surmounted by a vane or " weather
cock," which, if it be as viligaut as it is relatively
large, must be of great service to the villagers in
pointing out the successive changes in the aerial
currents. The western gable contidus a square
stone, on which is incised the following inscription :
—"Deo immortali banc ecclesiam dedicavit
munificentia vicinorum reguante Georgio II. pio
ielici Augusto P. P. Anno X. 1764." Over the
vestry window is inscribed : — *' This steeple was
<erected and clock purchased Anno Domtui 1828.
G. R. IV. E. Collier, sculp." The latter person-
age has, it appears, usurped the province of
the then wardens in thus banding down his name
to posterity. Tno eastern gable displays a couple
of inscribed tablets. One of them embalms the names
of the " Trustees for the erection of this chapel —
John Griffith, D.D., Thomas Perclval, Esq., Samuel
Town, C.I., Ila.[lph] Taylor, John Taylor, gent.,
John lliooth, Richard Bury, John Wallworth, Henry
Gartside, William Bury, John Travis, John Bury,
yeoman." The other lapidarian memorial informs
lis that *' Tills church, dedicated to St. Paul, was
enlarged by public subscription, a.d. 1854. Richard
Hill, B.A.C.C.C.C., incumbent; Thomas Seville,
Thomas Chadwick, churchwardens." The windows
are severally divided by a central munnion, which
branches off into two in the head. The entrance is
through the tower, and the interior is galleried on
every side, and supported by slender iron columns.
The ceiling is divided by plaster mouldings into
three compartments, each of which is relieved
by an ornamental rcsette. Large square sashes
having superseded the little quarrels in the
numerous windows, the interior is flooded with
light. This and the fittings generally accord more
with the usual idea of a meetiug-house than

Oldiiam and Neighbourhood. 181

harmoniee with the ecclesiastical adornments of an
Established Church. The pulpit and prayer desk
are joined together like the Siamese twins, except
that the former rears and lords itself over its lowly
brother. The pews are formed of oak, many of
them are square or double, and one of them occu*
pies the area of three ranges of seats. There is also
a family pew, or semi-chapel, appurtenant to the
hall, which, though reduced in its dimensions, yet
as bciug railed off from the rest of the pews or
congregation, it were wishful to see abolished, as
also those seats where the occupants are necessi-
tated to turn their backs upon the clergyman.
There is a small but sweet- toned organ in the eastern
gallery, which latter structure especially wants re-
moving ; indeed, it needs no prophetic eye to foresee
that the better taste now prevailing will shortly
sweep away this plain structure, to make room
for one of more decided ecclesiastical character and
some architectural design. When Shaw Chapel is
demolished — and we are told that event will soon
take place — then may Royton Chapel tremble, its
doom will be sealed. Placed within the com-
munion recess, or sacrarium, is the font, dated
lCf54, and comprising an octagonal bowl, with
shallow scooped basin, and supported by a
balustrelike stem or pillar. Among the mural
tablets is one in memory of Katharin<? Pickford, a
sincere Christian, who died May 15, 1765, in the
25th year of her age.

How lov'd, how vala'd onoe avails thee not.
To whom related, or by whom begot;
A heap of dust alone remains of thee—
'Tis all tliou art, and all the proud shall be.

The number of sittings is given as 772, of which
only 82 are free and unappropriated. An addi-
tion to the graveyard was consecrated August
13, 1822. The new Sunday schools were
opened September 22, 1833. The first marriage in
the church took place September 19, 1836. The first
clergyman was the Rev. Richard Dean, nominated
to the curacy in 1754, his successor, the Rev. Benja-
min Travis, being nominated September 1, 1760*
This clerftyman was the son of Mr. George Travis,
of Reyside, graduated at St Catharine's Hall,

182 Notes and Gleanings.

Cambridge, and died October 27, 1774. Hts
■uooeaior, nomioated on the foUowios; Christmas
Day, was the Rev. James Archer, by whom it was
regularly served and two sermons preached every
Lord's Day, and the sacrament of the Lord's supper
administered every qnarter of a year. He was
nominated by the Rev. Levitt Harris, rector of
Prestwich, daly qualified, and licensed by Dr.
Markham, Lord Bishop of Chester. He was
snoceeded by the Rev. Richard Bur}', who Was
nominated Jane 21, 1778. The Rev, Th9ma8
Langhorn was nominated September 3, 1796,
and was here in 1807. His successor was
the Rev. J. T. Trontbank, M.A. The in-
cmnbent in 1841 was the Rev. J. Dobie. The
present incumbent is the Rev. Richard Hill, B A.
Originally the curate's salary was wholly derived
from the seat rents, but about two years after its
erection a grant was obtained from Queen Anne's
bounty fund, being met by local subscription and
laid out in lands, which in 1778 produced £19 a
year. Another grant was obtained from the same
bonnty in 1774, which four years later was not
invested. The living was returned at £146 per
annum in 1835, and is now said to be worth £300 a
year. There is a parsonage house, which closely
adjoins the graveyard. Despite their plain village
church, the Roytonians seem to be a symbol loving
people, at least if we may judge from the sculp-
tures and devices displayed on many of the grave-
stones. One of them, after giving an inscrip-
tion to the memory of Richard Haywood,
who died in June, 1836, aged 56, and
his widow (Isabella), wh|i followed some quarter of
a century later, has the representation of a crown
depicted on it, which one of our companions
declared to be an emblem of their loyalty, but the
other pronounced it to signify '* a virtuous woman is
a crown to her husband." Another in a similar
manner exhibits a couple of crossed swords, which
our *' professor of signs " declared to mean when
Interpreted " they were ever at strife," or, in the
looal patois, *'awlus fratchin'." Another stone,
covering what was mortal of John \yhitworth, of

Oldham and Neighbourhood. 183

Thomham, clothier, who died in February, 176^

18 carved with a somewhat grotesque represeotatiMi

of a "death's head and marrow bones," with a

couple of intertwining sprays ot laurel. Some of

the inscriptioDS have illustrative rhymes, the ovb-

pourings, we suppose, of the rustic muse of tiM

locality. One quaintly informs us that

Onr glass is run, and yours is running ;
Prepare for Death, for it is coming.

A sun-dial, inscribed "John Barlow, Oldham,
1756," stands on a square pillar on the south 8a4e
of the graveyard. Just outside, inscribed ** J. M.,
1777," stand the stone pillars, once appertainiof
to the village stocks.

Royton has the honour of giving birth to many
men of talent in humble life, some of whom, after
honourable labour and various vicissitudes, now
quietly repose in their village churchyard. John
Butterworth, of Haggate, Royton, mathematician,
was bom February 16, 1774, and died December
3rd, 1845, aged 71 years. In the early part of his
life he followed the vocation of hand-loom weaving,
but finally taught a day school. After his decease,
a few friends purchased a gravestone, which haa
a lengthy inscription engraved upon it, "in tiM
hope that future votaries to science may be stimu-
lated and encouraged by his honourable example.'*
Another stone commemorates Edmund Cromptoa,
mathematician, who died May 29th, 1846, aged 75
years. Like Butterworth, he was employed in fail
earlier years as a hand-loom weaver, but finally his
days were ended in the Workhouse. Not far
distant is the last resting-place of John Grime, of
Royton, a self-taught chemist, who died November
6th, 1808, aged 33 years, and of whom Ms
epitaph records that '* in chemistry found a sweet
retreat." Another stone remembers John Kay, of
Royton, who was born July 16, 1781, and dial
December 31, 1824, aged 43 years. In tiM
outset of life he followed the occupatian of haiid^
loom weaving, but subsequently began to mannliMi*
ture muslins in a small way. He was not only »
mathematician, but also acquired considerable looat
fame as an orator and political reformer. TheM

184 NoTKs AND Gleaninos.

does not seem to be any atone niarkiDsr the

'place where John Mellor, the botanist, is

interred, but a mural tablet, placed in the churcli

October 6, 1852, informs us that he died on the

Sfeh of October, 1848, aged 81 years. A Botanic&I

Society was established at Royton in 1794, and

existed thirty years. A fresh one v/as formed

February 18, 1844, and of which, we believe,

Mellor was an active member. Still another flat

stone on the south side is inscribed to the memory

of Thomas Taylor, of Royton, orator, poet, and

litterateur, who died December 3, 1801, aged 52

years. He, also, earned a livelihood by hand-loom

weaving, and in the lapidarian memorial is des-

eribed as a **philantIiropist and a citizen of the

world."

Stop, gentle traveller, and shed a tear
O'er him whose memory holdeth dear ;
Beloved Mechanicns, whose noble soul
True eenins join'd with patriotic zeal.
His life was spent t' improve the public weal.

The inscription further briefly commemorates John
Taylor, his father. In the yard also was. buried,
though no stone marks the spot where reposes the
body of James Taylor, a poetical contributor to
'Various newspapers and periodicals of the day. He
also is said t'> have been originally a hand-loom
weaver, but when that employment declined he flew
to the power-loom, and finally opened a small
shop, and became a pedlar, or hawkdr.
His birth took place May 30, 1794, and
his death occurred September 15, 1863, when
ft volume of his poeticXl works was published, and
met with a ready sale in the locality. Here sleep
iklso the mortal remains of William Barnes, who
died March 13th, 1843, after having obtained more
than local fame as an eminent player on the violin.
Pe was for many years a member of the orchestra
ftt the Concert Hall, Manchester. In conclusion,
we append notices of son^e misceUaneons events
which have occurred in the township : — Jamee
liellor, an eccentric and pedestrian of Royton, died
May 5, 1804; William Fitton, M.D., was known
M a consistent reformer ; Kapoleon Chadwick,
the well-known surgeon, died May 8, 1847. About

Olduam and Neighbourhooi) 185

the close of the last century Royton was known for
being a stronghold of "Jacobinism,'' for so were
those designated who held advanced political
opinions. A meeting of reformers was held in a
bam at JEtoyton, April 21, 1794, when bciug routed
by the "church and ringers,'* it became known
round the country under the satitical epithet of
*' Royton Races." Several of the routers were
imprisoned, and three of them were tried at
Lancaster, March 14, 1795, and acquitted.
A few years later, March 25, 1799, the
country-side was gratified by the proces-
sion of J. Starkie, Esq., of Royton, as high
sheriff ot Lancashire. A great reform meeting was
held at Royton, May 16, 1832, since which time
politics have somewhat slumbered in the locality.
Rural police introduced at Royton, July 24, 1840.
The first agricultural show held at Royton, October
12, 1857. Although Royton was not included in
the " Fine of the Manor of Clayton " in March,
1547, yet the "recovery of Sir John Byron's
lands in Lancashire" August, 1581, comprises
among other places Ry ton, cUiaa Ruyton, and Thorpe.
John Tetloe, of Ouldham, and Sarah Milnes, of
Royton, were married November 6, 1670, at the
CoUegiate Chapel, Manchester. A Wesleyan
Chapel, built of brick, was founded in 1S04, and
opened on the 1st of September in the follow log
year. A beautiful Independent Chapel, in Pi^'k-
ford-street, was opened in 1865. Here for the pre-
sent we close these miscellaneous notices of the
township, and the jottings towards the history of
its church or chapel.

The above contribution was written by the late
John Higson. T. W. Hand.

186 Notes and Gleanings

J&atttrbas, ^fxxl 9% 1887.

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XXVllJ

NOTES,

L72.] Registers of Oldham Chtjbch. i

Baptisms. Anno 1584.

John Whithead bap. Aprill iij

Jobn needle... .^

AUice Taylier j-bap. Aprill vij

Richard Travis . . • . j

Anne Asheton \

Alice ieeze f^P* Aprill ziiij

Dorathe Kemp .... J
Thomas gregory S

mary Kershawe .... J

Robart Jacson 1

John bocley J-bap. maij z

Anne halle ...J

Robart Ieeze &\k«,* Tn«8« ^aa

Elizab brearley ....../*^P- ^"^^^ ^^J

John hollinworth bap. Junij xzj

Anne Halle • lu«^ r^^a «■«.»:«;

Alice Mellor |bap. Junq Mvuj

Jaueacholes ....bap. Janij xxx

Edmnd wyld *\u._ XniK ,,

AUce Cooker f^^' '''^ '

'^T^tT^ :;.::::}'«p- ^^ ^

Sassanna Assheton ...bap. Jnlij xxvj

John walker ^

AnneOgden Vbap. Augustij ij

Annary whitle j

James Ieeze ....••,
Elizabeth wyld ..

Edwardhalle \. ^ .„„

JohnChetham r*P- -^°« ^^

|bap. Aug ix

Oldham and Neighbourhood.

margery Haward ...|^ ^
Grace winterbotbom j *^ °
J jhn leeze . /. bap. Aug

John oeden It,.- -._

Edmund Hopwod • • ^

Grace leeze j-bap. sept

Joane Thorp J

Arthur ogden ^bao aeot

mary hilton J ^' ^

Seath earnshaw .... \\^g^^ gg«^

Anne o^den / ^' ^

Ellizabeth Say veil bap. octob

Richard Hartley j^, ^^^^

J on n mean f *^

jra!'.:::::::::H »=*»''

Elizabeth Coup bap. octob

Edmund scholes .... Vua** n^ir
Allice whithead ....j^^' ^^^

Allice buckley bap. no v

J ames whittaker . . . . \ k«^ ««„
Abyan whithead. .,...r*P-"^^

Henry bardsle ^

Edmund Taylier ... j-bap. Decemb
Jgabel meall j

Sarah Taylier .bap. Decemb

Sarah Taylier • bap. Jan

Edmund whithead...\« ^ t„„
Thomas whithead.. T*?- '^^^

henry winterbotham..bap. Jan

John mathew bap. Jan

nicholas Jacson . . • . ^

Anne Chetham y bap. f eb

An winterbotham ... J

James hilton |, ^^

Snssanna bucley / ^

James Coup bap. feb

margret street bap. marcij

Anno 1584. Burialls.

William Leeze sepultus marcij

John Rowbothom • • . . Aprill

James Tumoughe mai j

Ki^tt. hollin worth .... maij

187

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XX

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xxj

xxvij
xvij

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xvij

188 Notes and Gleasikos.

Altfce whitle Jaij

Kattsiuyth Jaoij

Afi;niu8 sclioles sep. Juni j

Henry Leeze sep. Jonij

John Ogden sep. Julij

Doratlie ficholes &\ ▼ r*

Aanescholea / ''""^

Hughe n^ore sep. Jalij

John hollin worth sep. July

Nicholas heap sep. Au^ustii

Nicholas hopwod &1
Elizabeth wyld .... f^^'

Henry leeze sep. Angustii

£dmund Assheton,!^^^ a«^-*5;
esquire /««P- Augusta

Margret Scholes sep. Au^ustii

John Hilton sep. Angustii

John melliir sepnlt. Angustii

Allice Scholes sep. Augustii

Joscphe smith sep. Angustii

margret Thorpe sep. Sept

James smyth sep. Sept

William mylnes sep. October

John Chetham sep. octob

Rogger wyld novem

Nicholas sharpies sep. nov

Ann Coup sep.

James whittaker sepult Dec

Anne wylde sepnlt Dec

peeter OgdeYi sep. Januarij

Jeramy sha we sep. Jan

Jzabell Keade Jan

Jzabell halle sep. feb

A child of Ottiwein - .

wyld / ^®^

Ammary whithead .. feb

Thomas smyth feb

Anne bucley feb

Catherin wylde feb

Jzabell Taylier feb

mary Collinson march

A child of henry \

bexwicke /

John Reade ...•• march

Vllj
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Shaw.

Oldham akd Neighboubuood. 189

[73.] Dog Whippeb.
No. 2.
We are indebted to the kindness of Harry Clegg,
Esq., J.P., for the following interesting notes : —

19th Apl 1742.— At a publick Meeting of Inhabi-
tants of the Parish of Oldham it was Unanimnsly
agreed that the Saxton should receive from the
Churchwardens of the said Parish the sume of Ten
fihillings for one whole Year from the date above
In order and for and in consideration, that the said
Ralph Jackson should whip the Doggs out of the
Parish Church of Oldham aforesd and Keep other
Deceancy and good in the sd Church Every Sunday
betwixt Services

[74.] Levy fob the Navy.
March, 3l8t, 1795. — ^At a meeting held this day,
in the vestry of Oldham Church, to take into con-
sideration the most speedy and effectual means of
raising 15 men, appointed at a general Sessions of
the Peace, holden on the 24th of March last, to
be raised by the Township of Oldham and the
Hamlet of Wardleworth, in the county of Lancas-
ter, in proportion to the number of assessed
Houses in each place ; that is, for every 71 assessed
houses one man for the service of the Kavy, in
pursuance of an Act intituled '* An Act for raising
a certain number of men in the several Counties in
England for the Service of His Majesty's Navy,"
and so that such men be raised, approved of, and
enrolled in His Majesty's Service on or before the
10th day of April now next ensuing, being the time
appointed for raising such men ; there being 811
assessed houses in the Township of Oldham, makes
the said Township to raise 11 men, and leaves 30
houses towards another man.

The meeting adjourned to the Angel Inn, but
what took place there I have no record.

-r-h-^S^^^

190

KOTKS AND GlEANINO.«I.

jSatttrt«8, ^pril 16tl), 1887.

NOTES.

[75.] Oldham House Duty in the Year 1779.
An ABftessment of all inhabited Honaes, with
Household Officea, in the Township of Oldham,
chargeable with the Now Duty for three Quarters
of a Year, from the fifth Day of July, 1779, to the
6th of April, 1780. Charged and Assessed this 8th
day of September, 1779, by us.

Occupiers' Names.

Clear Tearljr
Sent.
£ s. d.

Abraham Clenr, Lane End 12

John Clegg, Bent, Hatter 28

Joseph Jones, Jackson Pit 5

John Duncttft, Hathershaw 5

Jamea Dyson, Do. 6

MijiB Ursula Gregge, Chamber 7

Benjamin Taylor, at Milne 5

James Taylor, Hollmwool 6

James Aehton, Bottom of Hollinwood 6

Balph Tajlor, Bent Oreen 10

James Clegg, Bent hall 6

Joseph Ualiam, Bent brow 9

Thomas Henshaw, In taoks 10

Thomas Hobson, Priesthill 10

Edward Heap, in Town 6

James Winterbottom, Do 5

Bobert Dalton, George brow 7

Hary Nioholls, in Town 6 B

John Horrocks, Do 8

Joshua Winterbottom, Do 8

Mrs. Sarah Haigh, Do 5

John Whittaker, Do 6

William Brennand, Do 6

Henry Barlow, Do 6

Samuel Whittaker, Do 19

Bichard Hombey, Do 8

James Bowland, Do 19

John Hardman, Do 6

JohnNeild.Do 7

James Whittaker. Do 11

The Bev. Thomas Fawcett, Do 8

Andrew Bamford, Church-lane 9

John Sharpies, Do 6

John Lees, Do. 12

Jobn Cbadwtck, iu Town 5

Mary Ofrd»nDo 6

James Hobsnn, Do 6

Benjamin Barlow, Do 16

Kohert Jpckson, Do 7

.Tohn Wood, H^^reednre 'old 8

Bobert Lees, at Mumps 6

Pa mtiel FUtcher, Bottom of moor 8

John LeeB, Pit-bank 10

Joseph Dunkerley, Dirtker 7

James Butterworth, Waterhead

Milne 8

Jiihu Lees, Clarks field 12

Boms

Oldkam A2fD Kkiohboubhood. 191

John ICilne, Hifflier moor

John Andzww, Lowakle

John Hmo, in Glodwick

Samnel Euinthorp, Bent gxeen

John Bruiudl, Do

John Smethurst Do.

George Bdntley, Bonndthom

Joseph Suddise, in Town

John ]lfurlor,Do .,

Junes Kay, Chapel Croft

. Jcdin Barlow, in Town, jnnr..............

Major Bamford, Do

James Wright, Horsedge

James Lees, Dolstile

John Fletcher, in Town

John Taylor, Oreenacres moor

James Lees, Fowleach

Daniel Hilton, Bottom of moor

John Kershaw. Do

James Lees, Humps

Jamuel Winterbottom, Mumps

5
6
7
6
6
6
6
5
6
6
6
5
5
5
7
&
5
5
5
5
6

1 \0h

2 3

2
2
2
2
2

3
3

1 1(%

2 8

1 lOi

2 8
1 104

1 lOl
lit J

2 74
1 10^
1 lOi
1 IC^

) 1 1(A

': 1 ii i
) iioj

Total 9 9 9

Assessed by us Robert Mayall.

John Travis.
Isaac Clkgo.
Daniel Broadbent.

Proper persons for collectors we think to be

John Fletcher.

Robert Lees.

Lancashire \ Sepr. 6th, 1779.
to wit. / Allowed by us

George Worthington.
John Gorell.

John Walmsley,

G. Shaw.

[76.] Church Goods in Oldham, 1552.
The accompanying account of the plate, vest-
ments, bells, &c., that existed in Oldham Church at
the time of the Reformation is of historical in-
terest. It was copied from the original document,
now in the Public Record Office, London, in Ma}^
1879. The vestments and the bells and the candle-
sticks have disappeared, in spite of all promises to
the contrary ; but one at least of the ** Too
cbaleses " is still in the safe cus^dy of the vicar
and wardens, and is still used occasionally in the
administration of the Holy Communion.

Alfred J. J. Cachemaille.

This indentur made the xijth day of October in
the sixt yere of the reigne of our souraigne loi d

192 Notes and Gleanings.

Edward tbo sixt by the itpraoe of god of england
ffrance k Ireland Kyng deieador of the f uthe & of
the Church of england & also of Ireland in erthe
the saprme head. Bitwyne Sr Edmond Trayfort
Sr John Holcroft k Sr Thomas Holt Knyghtes
upon the behalfe of our said souraigne lord the
Kyng one the one ptie and Rauffe Gudworthe
Willm Scolles RaufifeWynterbotham & John bucko
ley churchwardens of the parishe churche of Oldam
k laurens halle prst of Shay chapell wtin the said
parishe of that other partie. Wittness ithe that
wheare the said Sr Edmonde IVayfort Sr John
Holcroft k Sr Thorns Holt haue delyured the
tyoie of the Sealeng and delynrye of these
prsentes to the said Kaufife Cudworthe Willm
Scolles Rauffe Wyntrbotham and John buckeley
Too chaleses faure great belles one Anteme bell
k ij hand belles Too cowpes faure vestemtes
Thre Auters fumesshed wth auter clothes Too litle
candiistyckes brasse k a censer And to the said
laurens hall prst at the said Shay Chapell one
vestmt one litle chales k a litle bell savely to be
kept to the vse of or said soueraigne lord the Kyng
the said Rauffe Cudworthe Willm, Rauffe, John k
laurens hall for them k their executors do couennt
k grannt by these prsentes to k wth the said Sr
Edmond Trayfort, Sr John Holcroft k Sr Thoms
Holt that the said chaleses belles vestemts cowpe
wth all other ornamtes aboue said shall nott at any
tyme hereaftr be aiienatyd Im beaseled or otherwyse
putt away from or souraigne lord the Kyng but
shalbe answarable k furthe comeng to the vse
of his highnes at suche tyme and tymea
as his matie or his honerable councell shall de*
mande the same In wittnes whereof the pttes
afforesaid to these presentee Interchangeably haue
sett ther seals the day and yere aboue wrytten.
' Rauff cudworth Willm scolles

Rauff Wynterbotham John bucley

lawrance halle preist is gone from his seruyco

J.E.Bailey, F.S.A., who has edited ''Invcn-
toriep of Church Goods," Chetham Society, vol.
CVLJ., b has the following interesting notes :— ** It

b p. 44,

Oldham and Neighbourhood. 193

does not appear who was curate of Oldham at thii
date, but the peculiar relation of the parish to it»
mother church, Prestwich, may account for the
omission."

From the Piccope MSS. we gather that Dnt
Thomas Sherock ap Oldom was curate circa 16S4
being paid by William Longleye, the rector of
Prestwich. In 35 Henry viij Elioe Wetaore and
others were plaintiffs in a case in which Sir Thomav-
SSherrok, priest, and others were defendants cob*.
oernins; a disputed claim to legacy goods and
chattels in Fox Denton. At a visitation, ciroa^
1547, there appeared with Sherook Dns laur^ciui
hall, Dns Nichus Cowper, and Dns Edmunduft
Hall ; and all but Edmund Hall appeared at the
visitation in Warden Vaux*s time. Laurence Hall,
who left his service, was priest at Shaw chapeL
Sir Roger Wrigley, who was curate of
Prestwich from 1534 and onwards, was ap-
pointed to Oldham in 9 Elizabeth ; and 7 De-
cember, 8 Elizabeth, he was executor, trusteoi
and an intin;iate friend of Robert Wroe, of Presft*
wtch, Yeoman, and Elizabeth, his wife. The
srandparentB of Humphrey Ghetham, the founder*
and Mr. John Wrigley, being an overseer of the
win, alon/r with Sir Roger Wrigley, priest, they
were probably relations of the Wroes. At a visita-
tion of the province of York, held in October, 1659»
it was presented that the parson of Oldham kept no
hospitality.

A parcel-gilt chalice of silver, weighing 6oz., was
given up to the Commissioners. Three large bells
and a sanctus bell, weighing 8c wt., and of the
value of 6^., were put iato the account of the collec-
tor, for which he claimed allowance, as he could
not get possession of them. In the new
inquiry which was instituted the churchwar-
dens were summoned to explain ; but thougb.
they *' hayde snffycient warnynge and knowledge
to be before us at Whalley " on 7 April 1554, they
made default. The collector is, therefore, said to
owe the amount because the bell was not yet certi-
fied at the date of settlement. The final com-
mission of enquiry about these bells addressed by

194 NOTIS AND GLXANiy»h.

the King and Qaeen (1 ft 2 Philip & Mary) on
behalf of Parker, to Edmand Aasheton and others,
b given in abttract in the "Duchy Calendar," toI
ii, P 163. It was returned that Aasheton and his
feUow-oommissioners had taken a perfect view and.
survey of the three bells and sanctus bell then re-
maining in the said chapel, and that neither Parker
HOT any other commissioner had taken or carried
away any other bell or bells belonging to the said
diapel of Oldeham, but that the same were there
remaining.

Bishop Gastrell notes that the chapelry in his
time was served by four wardens, one for each
township. In 1641-2 there were only two grown up
males of the name of Cudworth in the parish.
This family, which at one time had a chapel in
Oldham Church, produced Dr. Ralph Cudworth
U617-1688), the author of "The True Intellectual
System of the Universe, 1678." Thomas Mawdea>
ley, describing himself as clerk, of Middleton, by
bis will, in safer times (12th March, 1654-5), be-
queathed to the chapel of Oldham a vestment of
green damask. This would, in part, make up for
the loss of the vestments in the former reign.

Shaw.^The chapel which was valued at 13s. 4d.,
On its confiscation to the King's use, was purchased
liy the inhabitants. The ornaments produced
«8.8d.

REPLIES.

[77.] Oldham Newspapebs.

_ (No. 23.)
The first newspaper published in Oldham was the
(Mdham Observer, ]No. 1 of which is dated May 3rd,
1827. Some nine or ten years ago I know a copy
was in the possession of the widow of the late Mr.
James Bailey. In the strict sense of the term it
WSA not a newspaper. The first and only number
of the Oldham Argus was published 6th March,
1847. The first weekly newspaper published in
GUI ham was the Chrmiichy in May, 1854, the pub-
lisher being the late Mr. Daniel Evans. Besides
the above, I remember the Oldham Advertiser, the

Oldham and Nkiouboubhood. 105

Oldham 7tme«, the Oldham Standard, the (Hdham

Telegraph, and the Oldham Expres9.

Oldham HsBpress, Deoember, 1867.— First daily

eveuing paper in Lancashire. Oldham Standard^

1869.

John Hollikhiad,

JhLtnxH^, llprtl 28rl^, 1887,

NOTES.

[78.] Holy Tbikity Chttbch, Watebhead,
Holy Trinity Church had its orij|;in in two small
upper rooms in the stone buildings called The
Grove, off Sidebottom-street. They are the first
buildings from Huddersfield-road, left-hand side«
The entrance was from Sidebottom-street. These
rooms are now added to the cottatces below. Frotti
1837 they had been occupied by the pioneers of the
present Congregational Church — ^now worshipping^
in a neat building in Church-street East — as a Sun-
day school and preaching-room, under the car^ of
the Rev. Joseph Galland^ minister of the old con*
gregation at Greenaeres. Until 1822 Mr. Galland
was the only Independent minlBter, and the
chapel at Greenaeres the only Independent Chapel
in the parish of Oldham, The rooms had also beea
used as a day school by the Rev. John Mattinsolif
curate of St. John's, Hey. The nearest churchei
to the village of Waterhead at this time were thoit
of St. James's, Greenaeres Hill, and the then
chapel of -ease of St. John's, Hey. On the 5th of
May, 1843, Sir Robert Peel introduced into the
House of Commons his celebrated biU " for the
endowment of additional ministers and the augmen*
tatlon of small livings in order to make better pro-
vision for the spiritual care of populous parishes."
This bill became Act 6 and 7 Vic, o. 37> Mid
under it Oldham, which had consisted of six
ecclesiastical districts from the death (1836) of
the Rev. Thomas Lyon, rector of Prestwicfa, was
subdivided into thirteen parishes, viz , St. Mary's*

196 Notes and GLEA^nrKGs.

St. Peter's, St James's, St. Margaret's, HoUinwood;
fit. Paul's, Eoyton ; Holy TriDity, Shaw ; Chadder-
ton, Goldhurst, Cowhill, East CromptoD, Water-
liead, and Wemeth. The first six were the old
l^aiishes. The new parishes were taken mostly
from existing ones, that of Waterhead, with some
slight exceptions, heing taken from St. James's,
Greenacres Hill. The Rev. Patrick Reynolds
having been appointed to the benefice of Water-
head in 1844~at which time (1842-44) he was
curate of Blacfcley, near Manchester — he com-
menced his labours amongst us on the first Sunday,
the 5th day of January, 1846. He began in the
two rooms we have mentioned above, and there are
a few still living who look upon this building,
which he pleasantly called the '* old cathe-
dral," with feelings of love and veneration*
and who will for ever keep green in their
l)osoms that friendship and respect for the rev.
gentleman which budded and took root here from
the first falling of those precious seeds which he so
well knew how to scatter around him. We were
among the little band who attended his first services,
and well remember how heartily, how simply, but
effectually, these services were entered into. Ko
soulless ceremony was there ; no arrogant
sacerdotalism ; but everything done simply and to
the glory of God. A few helpers came in from
St. John's, Hey, and R&ve their assistance to the
l^ood work ; Mr. Grundy — the old Trojan, who is
still there keeping on the even tenour of his way
through evil report and good report, ever mindful
of his religious duties, nor caring to meddle
with those of others around him — giving
him hearty welcome, and becoming one of
\ hia best and truest ot friends. The neophyte choir
^ was led by the late Thomas Green Bridecake, Esq.,
' who up to this time had been choirmaster of St.
James's, Greenacres Hill, and who, on leaving, was
presented with a beautiful silver inkstand. There
was no gas in the rooms, and if ** Old Sara Mellor "
did snuff out a candle or two every now and then
at the evenine services, it was taken for granted
that such thmgs had to be, so that the youngsters

Oldham and Neighbourhood; li7

only just tittered for a moment or two, and went
on with their devotions a^ain. Well, church and;
Sunday echool prospered, the former so much sa
that the school children had to be dismissed at
service time, to make room for the congregation.
]^4^one was more zealous than the incumbent. To build
a new church was now decided on, and after no little
care and anxiety a spot was chosen on the Pauldea
estate, on the hillside, lying between the Hudders-
field and Waterworks roads. Perhaps it was not
thechoicest place for such a building, as the ground
is full of water, and the church completely hiddea
from the mun road. The building commenced
without bustle or ceremony, not even so much as a
foundation stone laying. The late Mr. Shellard, of
Manchester and Mottram Hall, was the architect.
Mr. Robert Holden did most of the atone work, and
the Messrs. Goulthart and Foggat contracted for
the woodwork. Before the church was finished
Holden was replaced by Messrs. Mallalien, of
Austerlands. The style is early English, with
nave, north and south aisles, chancel and vestry^
A gallery goes across the west end. A
tower and spire have since been added. Accom^
modation was made for 800 seats, 500 of which
were tolse free. The nave is separated from the
aisles by six fine arches, supported on stone pillanu
The roofs are open. The building rose slowly, and
caused Mr. Reynolds many an anxious hour iknd
much labour in obtaining the necessary funds.
Ue sent out abot seven thousand — or, ai
one of our local gentlemen aptly said, at the
opening of a late bazaar, " whole bucketfuls "*-ot
begging letters. However, the church was at laat
ready for openinc;. and was consecrated on Monday
afternoon, the 5th day of July, 1847, by Dr. John
Bird Sumner, Bishop of Chester. Sumner was
well known in Oldham, his numerous confirmationB
being very successful.. In the literary world h^
will live in his "Records of Creation" if
all his other voluminous works are forgotten.
He was translated to the see of Chester in
-1828, and became Archbishop of Canterbury
in 1848. The day of consecration was a red-letter

196 Notes and Gleanings.

day for the Gharch people of the district, and, being
beavtifally fine, the asaemblaKe was large. JThe
inoombent, Mr. Reynolds, read the prayers, and
the Bishop preached from the Epistle to the Kphe-
iianB, 3rd chapter, verses 14 to 19. After the ser-
▼ice a collection was taken, which amounted to £34
40«, ft sum thonght not inconsiderable in those
days. The choir was accompanied by Mr. Joseph
Wilde on his violin, and the hite Mr. WiUiam Field-
ing on his violincello. After service lanch was
spread out in one of the rooms of New Royd Mill.
The first wardens were Messrs. Thomas G. Bride-
cake and Edward Mayall. Apropos. On each
tide of the entrance of the south porch may
be seen a rongh-hewn corbel left for sculp-
ture. Entering the church together one day,
Mayall pointed this Out to his brother warden, and
suggested putting their profiles on them, and thus
hand down their names and faces to the future
ages. Thomas, ever ready, said it would never do,
*' for the first urchin that saw them would knock
their noses o£El" Perhaps he was i^ht, for our ex-
perience teaches us that with all our boasted
dvilisation and schoolmasterism-at-home business,
there is sadly too much of the spirit of vandalism
itill left among us.

The Sunday school was now removed from Side-
bbttom-street, and was carried on under the gallery
6f the church, the place being warmed in winter by
ft Ug square stove. For some time after the church
Wfts opened for divine service, the only instrumenta-
Usttoaccompany thechoir was the late Mr. Jonathan
Oalloway, on his violincello. Lads are proverbial
lor mischief. On one occasion— Joseph Lawton, we
believe, being the one who was to stroke the cat-
gut, his son Miles and his daughters Eliza and
Sarah being now members of the choir — ^two pre-
cocious youths, their name, well, sub roMi, finding
the tail end of a candle, thought they would play a
trick on "old Dody." He had reared the violin-
cello up in the (gallery with its green gown off,
tuned, and ready for the " morning hymn," or any
4>ther equally appropriate. The youths, unable to
check their desire for mischief, no sooner saw it

Oldham and Neighbourhood. 199

' ■

r
I

tluui over its strings went the greasy cancU«»
lAwton came, resined his bow, felt that his pe|(i
irere tight, c^ave another tonch of resin to his bow,
-and to make sure that his instrument bai
i kept its tune, drew it, the bow, gently

across the strings. The hollow case was
an mute as an old barn-bred owl. The restn
"was again applied to the bow, but this time
with greater energy and force. Again it passed
over the silent strings, soon followed by the in-
tending player's fingers, when from his mouth
•eaoaped — well, a very strong interjection. If
Thomas could have found out those lads there
would have been a rattle at the roots of the hair on
their heads which would have been heard all over
the church. However, a small organ was now
bought from Mr. John Smith, of Greenacres Hill«
he generously giving his services for the first aiz
months. The organ had previously done service aft
the Abbey Inn, West-street. From Water head it
went to St. Andrew's, at which place it has lately
been replaced by a new one. W. B.

(Continued*)

Jftatttrtas, Jlpril 30tlj, 1887.

NOTES.

[79.] Holt Trinity Church, Waterhead.

{Continued,)

1G47 was an eventful year. On the same day
that Holy Trinity Church was consecrated the
second son of the Emperor of Russia, the Grand
Duke Constantine, visited Manchester. The day
after Tuesday Dr. Sumner consecrated the Pariali
Chnroh of St. James's, Crompton. It was the year
of a general election, Messrs. Doncuft and Fox
being returned members for the borough of Oldhaou
One of the last bills which received the royal
assent in the House of Lords before the dissolution
of the previous Parliament was the bill for the
establishment of the Bishopric of Mimchester. Jn

200 Notes and Gleaningh. *

%he same year the Swedish nightingale, Jenny
land, visited Manchester, and, it is said, drove
through the village ef Waterhead. It is a year ever
memorable in the annals of the factory operative as
the one in which, June 7th,' the Ten Hours Bill
received the royal assent, and the year when a
quarrel between the Greek and Latin Churches led
to the disastrous and clumsy war in the Crimea.
We mention these things because they were a part
of the village life at that time.

The first baptism in the new church was that of
Thomas M<ftyall, son of John and Eliza Mayall,
July the 8th, 1847. The first marriage took place
on the 26th of July, 1847, between Benjamin Stott
and Mary Winterbottom (the present was a
Bible, instead of a pair of blankets, aa
was rumoured) ; and the first burial was
that of Miles Cocker, an infant, on the 3rd of Sep-
tember, 1847. A sick and burial society was estab-
lished December 8th, 1848, the contributiona
amounting to 15s. 2d. At presept the dob
is worth £1,541 10s. 5d., with 285 members,
and 16 on probation. In 1852 new Sunday and
day schools were opened, in the success of which Mr.
Reynolds took great interest, Mr. and Mrs. John
Dawson conducting the latter. Evening classes
were opened; and many who are now getting past
the meridian of life look back with feelings of plea>
sure and gratitude to the pleasant and productive
hours snent under the able tuition of the incumbent
and his worthy assistants. To many it was the
starting point in their lives. Among others who
attended these evening classes and had private
tuition we may mention the Rev. James Scho-
field, of Westgate, Durham ; the Rev. John
Stott, vicar of Walmsley, Lancashire ; the Rev.
Thomas H. Whitehead, of Scarborough ; the
flev. Thomas Kewton Rigby, of HoUingworth, near
3ffottram ; Mr. H. T. Dawson, A.C.P., principal of
Book-street, Academy, Oldham; Mr. £. Win-
terbottom, journalist, of Manchester ; with
others who are leading useful lives in the
Ifarious cycles of the ever • whirring rooiid
of a nation's Industry. At this time Mr. Key-

Oldham and Neighbourhood 201

oolda seemed to live solely for the good of others.
Self was lost in the laudable desire to be uplifting
those around him, and in helping on their spiritual
and mental welfare. A nicer lot of young men and
young women couldnot have been foundin the whole
kingdom than those he had gathered around
him. In addition to his other duties he
carried on a week-day service in a hayloft at
Higher Count Hill* This was exchanged, 1852, for
a more suitable building in Sholver-lane. I'he
building had been used by the Independent Metho-
dists as a preaching room from 1807. The trustees
gave it into the hands of Mr. ReynoldSj who got it
licensed by' Dr. Lee, the first Bishop of Manchester.
The late Mr. Thomas Mellodew, who acted as his
warden, got the organ repaired, put down new
benches, made the place generally somfortable
inside, erected a porch outside, in which
he used to stand, ever ready to direct people to
seats. A Sunday school was opened here also, in
which Mr, Henry Whitehead, Scripture reader,
acted as superintendent. These circumstances, and
frequent reminders from Mr. Reynolds, induced
his old friend, Mr. Mellodew, to leave behind him
a noble memorial in the shape of the nice church,
schools, and vicarage of St. Thomas', Moorside.

In the midst of his useful labours, and for reasons
perhaps best known to himself, the rev. gentleman
accepted the living of St. Stephen's, Birmingham.
He preached his farewell sermon to a large and
deeply affected congre|2;ation on Sunday, the 15th
of October, 1854, the prayers and best wishes
of most of his parishioners going with him
to his new home. He was a man beloved of
all the village, his broadheartedtiess knowing little
of the bigotry begotten of sect and creed.
Many proofs of this might be given, and if this
should meet his eye we know he will forgive us for
giving just one striking illustration. Returning
home one evening, he was stopped by two of his
parishioners, who had b^en worshipping too de-
vontedly at the shrine of Bacchus. They no
sooner recognised him -than they exclaimed,
** Hello, Mr. Reynolds, is that yonl Come on, we

202 KoTBs AND Glbanihos

will see yo* safe home, we will that" Suiting the
action to the word, eeoh took hold of an ann and
faithfully performed their well-meant, if not too
dignified offioe. He is itill labouring for the
Great Master and the good of Hie chnrch in the
town of Birmingham. Sinoe he entered on hie
religious duties there he has bnUt np in a part of
his parish an iron chnroh, which has since been
superseded by a permanent building. He also
built the chnrch of St. Nicholas, which is now a
separate parish, and the chnrch endowed. In the
remaining portion of St. Stephen's he lias built a
vicarage, and a mission-room with adwelling-honse.
The rev. gentleman was a scholar of the University
of Dublin, took his B.A. in 1841, first class in
classics and divinity in 1842« and his LL.B. in
18S5. Here for the present we must leave hira«
hoping tiie future has still much good in store for
him. (ConUnutd, f W, B.

[80.] Bboist£rs of Oldham Church:

Baptisms Anno 1585»

Edmund whithead ^

Roger wilde r^P* Apiill iii]

AlUceHaUe ......J

margretGodwarte.«..bap. Aprill vj

mary hilton ^

marv bucley • • >• bap. maij ir

mary whittaker . . . • J

margret wyld bap. maij xvj

Abram wyld bap. may zx

Elizab Crompton . . ^

Jssabell halle J

Elizabeth smyth....^

Thomas heap I . ^_ .. ^ ._

James Jacson \^' °^J *«»

Elizab brearley J

James leeze.......«««. .bap. Jnaij ziy

Oldham and Nkiohbourhood.

203

James Jacsoa ••••.. \u._.
Grace Taylier j^^'

John Kyrshawe • •
Robarte newton . .
mary Jacson ....
Grace leeze

Richard shore \baD

Anne wylde ./ "'

Jsabell Chetham . . ^

Gabriel! houlte > bap.

RoUart houlte j

Catherin scholes • • . .bap.

Roeer leeze 1 u„«

mafymathew /'»»P-

Elizabeth Goape '

Elizabeth street
mary wyld ....
Jssabell wyld . .
Anne street ..•*

Edward bucley ....jbap.
roargery mathew / *^

Edmnd Halle bap.

Robart scholes bap.

michalle bucley bap.

Anne halkyard bap.

Elizabeth osden,

Jalij

bap. Julj

Aug

-bap. sept

iiilizabeth ogden ^

Richard ogden > bap.

margret ogden j

'••jbap.

rgret ogd

James whitle
Jane greaves

Gylbert bucley Iban

Anne haslom J ^'

Lawrence hepwod ...\u.^
Alice Jacson /*^P-

Edward ogden bap.

Edward brock bap.

Anne Ogden \baD

Anne OoUinson / P*

James Kempe lu„,*

Georcbudev j^^'

Robart Grea ve ..... \ v- -
Jane whittaker /*****'

Elizabeth whittaker^

Oeorg leeze |- bap.

will Dickson J

Anne Hyde, bastard \
of Root Hyde /

sept

sept
sept
octob
octob

octob

octob
nov

nov

Decemb
Dec

Dec
Jan
Jan

Jan

V « « ■

lllj

XVllJ

Aug

• • •

VIIJ

Aug

xxij

XIX

xxj

XXV

• • •

• • •■

XllJ

XXIU]
XX

xxvij

xxj

XX vj

xxvij

•

]

xvj

• • •

XXllj

204

Notes and Gleanings .

Edmnd baat Abrahm j^,^ j^
wylde ,.j *^

Edmande Jacson bap. f eb

Judith Taylier bap. feb

Joha Cud worth ^

Raffe smyth V bap. feb

Allice leezo J

Henry brearley jj^^^. ^^y^

-bap. feb

• •

xiij

XXUlj

XXVllj

Richard Coup.

Alice shawe ^

John woUtenholme..

mary Cocker

wilMeeze

Anne brearley ^

Anne Eastwod I

James Coliinge .... iu^^ «»«,./»;;
John sondiflforthe .. T^P' "^'"^
Edmund whithead.. |
Jane Smyth j

James Houldeu ")

Dorathe whitle..... fbap. marcij

Jane Scholes j

No entries of Burials for 1585.

G. Shaw.

Jftattttbas, Jttag 7tl), 1887.

KOTES.

[81.1 The Works of the Butterworths.

A complete list of the works of James and Edwin
Butterworth, the fathers of local history, with a
collation, and where a copy of them could be seen,
would be a boon to all their admirers. The follow-
in;; is not given as a complete list, but only as a fair
instalment. If any of your readers can give further
information,- or corrections, I shall be glad. I want
t3 see the list full and accurate.

Werncth, Oldham. John Hollinhead.

WORKS BY JAMES BUTTERWORTH.

1806.—** A Dish of Hodge Podge, or a Collection
of Poems, by Paul Bobbin, Esq., of Alt, near
Oldham," Manchester : Printed for the author by
G. Bancks, corner of St. Ann's-square, 1800. It
is dedicated, ^* To the Right Honourable Edward

Oldham akd Nkighboukuoop. 205

Earl of Derby these effusions of a rustic muse are
humbly inscribed by his lordship*8 obedient and
devoted servant, the author." Dated Alt, near
Oldham, 1800.

1801. — "The Instniments of Freemasonry,"
moralised by James Hntterworth. Manchester:
Printed for the author by G. Bancks, comer of St.
Ann'swiuare, 1801. Dedicated — "To his Royal
Highness George, Prince of Wales, Grand Master,
and the Right Honourable Earl of Moira, Acting
Grand Master of Masons, this production of the
Quill of Rusticity is humbly inscribed, with all due
deference and respect, by their devoted servant
and brother, J. Butterworth. Alt, May, 1801."

1803. — " A Poem." London : It is printed by
William Nicholson, Lees. Dedicated to Thomas
Percival, M.D., and others, dated Lillys, near
Oldham, 1803.

1804. — "Rocher Vale," a poem. By James Butter-
worth. Oxford, MDCXIGIV., Duodecimo. Title
as above, and poem 15 pp. A copy is in the
Manchester Free Library ; No. 3,527.

1817. — " An Historical and Descriptive Account
of the Town and Parochial Chapelry of Oldham, in
the County of Lancaster, including some Biogra-
phical Sketches of Persons, Natives, or Residents
thereof, together with a Directory, &c." By J.
Butterworth. Oldham : Printed and sold by J.
Clarke, Market-place, 1817. Post octavo. Dedi-
cated to Sir Joseph Radcliffe, Bart., of Mills Bridge,
in the county of York, and dated Post-ofiSce, Old-
ham, April, 1817. Title as above, dedication and
preface ; xii pp. History, directory, errata, 212 pp.
Contains a plan of the town of Oldham, in Lanca-
shire, south view of the Old Church, the arms of
Oldham, and a plan of Oldham as it appeared about
1756, folding pediirrees of Cudworth, of Wemethj
and Radcliffe, of Radcliffe Tower and Royton.
Copy in both Manchester and Oldham Reference
Libraries ; in the latter the number is 2,832.

1818.— The " Rustic Muse," a collection of poems
by J. Butterworth. Oldham : Printed and sold by
J. Clarke, Market-place, 1818, 12mo. Dedicated
to James Whitehead, Esq., of Denshaw, and

206 NOTKS AVD QVKASWQfi,

ThomM X&ylor, EmIm of Rhodes Hill, Lees, two
siooere friends of John Lees, Esq., of fiaokside,
Oldham, deoeiMed, to whom these poems were to
have been dedicated. The poems include '* Rocher
Vale," <* The HiU of Tor," *< Morning," and others.
Half title, title as above, dedication, preface, tlUe
page to ** Rocher Yale " and ** Rostice Mose," and
poems, 70pp. Frontispieoe, view of Rocher Vale
as it appeared when the poem was written, taken
from Lilly's Nook. Copy in Oldham Free Reference
Library, No, 2,857.

1819. ~*< A Sequel to the Lancashire Dialect," or
part second of .the "Adventures, MiBfortunes, and
Losses of a Lancashire Clown." By Panl Bobbin,
Cousin German of the famous Tim Bobbin of merrv
memory. Manchester : Printed and published by
M. Wilson, Barlow's court. Market-street, 1819,
Duodecimo. Title as above, and dialect, 46pp.
FrontlBpiece, portrait of Paul Bobbin, Esq. Copy,
Manchester Free Library, No. 28,260.

1822.— <* The Antiquities of the Town, and Com-
plete History of the Trade of Manchester aod
Salford, with an Account of the late Improvements
in the Town." By James Butterworth.

I'll walk quite dear of pftrty,
■ ■ " " ithfal

Follow the undaunted steps of faithful history.
On the broad and heaten road of independenoe.

Ego,

Manchester: Printed for the author by C. W.
Leake, St. Mary's-gate, 1822. Foolscap octavo.
Dedicated to J. W. Hulme, Esq., Medlock Vale,
and dated Coldhurst, near Oldham, September
20th, 1822. Title as above, dedication, list of
subscribers, and preface, x. pp. " Antiquities, "&c.;
302 pp. (no index). Frontispiece, view of CoUe
giate Church, Manchester. Manchester tokens, in
the possession of VV. Yates, Esq., and three wood-
cuts. Copy in Manchester Fi*ee Library, No.
3,528 ; copy in Oldham Free Reference Library,
No. 2,812. This work was afterwards republished
with the following title : —

1823.—- "A Complete History of the Cottou
Trade, including also that of the Silk, Calico Priut-
ing, and Steel Manufactories. With remarks . on
their progress in Bolton, Bury, Stockport, Black-

Oldham iicd Nxiohboubhood. 207

barn, and Wigan ; to which is added an account of
the chief Marts of these goods, the town of Man-
chester." By a person concerned in the trade.
Manchester: C. W. Leake, printer, St. Mary's-
gate, 1823. Foolscap octavo.

1823.--** fliBtory and De8cripti<m of the Town
and Parish of Ashton-under-Lyne, and the Village
of Dn kenfield. Ashton, 1823." Dedicated to Lord
Snffield, and dated Goldhnrst, near Oldham, Novem-
ber, 1823. In the preface he says : — ** A history
of the place of my nativity, and a description of the
scenes of early days, is the design of my present
undertaking. A copy in Manchester Free Library,
No. 27,256.

1826.—*' An Historical and Descriptive Account
of the Town and Parochial Chapelry of Oldham, in
the County of Lancaster. Including some
Biographical Sketches of Remarkable Persons
Natives or Residents thereof. " By J. Butterworth .
Oldham : Printed and sold by J. Clarke. 1826.
Octavo. Dedicated to the Right Honourable Earl
of Wilton, and to the Worshipf al the Magistrates
of Oldham, the Rev. J. Holmes, and Jas. Lees,*
Esq. Dated St. Helens, near Oldham, June
Ist, 1826. Title page, dedication, and preface,
z. pp. ; history, &c., 172 pp. ; biographical
anecdotes of former residents of Oldham, 173-181 ;
appendix and errata, 182-194. Has a folding
plan of Oldham, with a view of Market-place from
the west, to face title page, and at page 13 north
view of the ancient Chapel of Ease of Oldham. A
copy is in the Oldham Free Library. I have seen
several copies of this work, with the foliowlDg
title :— *< History and Description of the Parochial
^/hapelry of Oldham, in the county of Lancaster,
with an Appendix.'' By James Butterworth.
Second edition, with improvements. Oldham :
Printed and sold by J. Dodge, High-street, 1826.
The dedication and collation, &c., are same as
preceding.

1827. — '*A History and Description of the
Towns and Parishes of Stockport, Ashton -under -
Lyne, Mottram, Long-Den- Dale, and Glossop, with
some Memoirs of the late F. D. Astley, Esq , of

206 NoTSS AND Glxanings.

Dakenfield, and Extracts from his Poems^ with an
Elegy to hiB Memory." By James Batterworth.
Manchester : Printed by W. D. Varey, St Ann's-
square, 1827. Octavo. The Aflhton part is
dedicated to ** The Right Honourable the Eail <d
Stamford, as Lord of the Manor ; and to James
Gee, Esq., of Lime House," and is dated St.
Helens, near Oldham, 1827. The Glossop part is
dedicated to his Grace the Duke of Norfolk,
and the Right Honourable George Canning, Prime
Minister of England. Dated Saint Helen's, North-
moor, near Oldham, July 25th, 1827. The
Mottram Long-Den-Dale part is dedicated to Nemo
Nullis, and is dated Busk, near Oldham, Septem-
ber 10th, 1827. Title, dedication, preface, and
history of Ashton, 86 pp. ; 2nd tiUe, view of
Glossop Church, dedication, and history of Glosaep,
pp. 87-132 ; view of Mottram Church, 3rd title,
dedication, and history of Mottram, pp. 133-210 ;
view of Parish Church of Stockport, 4th title,
dedication, preface, and history of Stockport, pp.
211-375 ; view of Dukinfield Lodge, title, dedicsr
tion, and memoirs, 110 pp. ; Addenda, errata, viii.
•pp. ; frontispiece, view of Ashton Parish Church*
Copy in Manchester Free Library, Mo. 35,200 ; and
in Oldham Free Library, No. 2,839. The latter
does not contain the memoirs of F. D. Astley,
Esq., as given in the collation in Fishwick's Lanca-
shire Library, page 1.

1828. — ' ' An Historical and Topographical Account
of the Town and Parish of Rochdale, in Lancashire,
and also of the Parochial Chapelry of Saddleworth,
in the county of York." By James Butterworth,
author of histories of Oldham, Ashton-under-Lyne,
Manchester, Stockport, &c. Manchester: Printed
by W. D. Varey, 3, Red Lion-street, St
Ann's • square, 1828 ; octavo ; dated Busk-
head, Oldham, September 12th, 1828. Title
as above, second title, dedication, and preface,
vl pp. Supplement, or appendix, list of sub-
scribers, contents, index, and history of Rochdale,
206 pp., errata 1 p. Title to History of Saddle-
worth : — "A History and Description of the
Parochial Chapelry of Saddleworth, in the County

Oldham and Nbiqhbourhood; 209

of York" (six lines of verse).'* By James Butter-
"worth. Manchester: Printed by W, D. Varey.
&c,, 1828. Dedication, History of Saddleworth,
addenda, and index, 86 pp.

The History of Saddleworth was also issued
separately as —

1828. — " History and Description of the Parochial
Chapelry of Saddleworth." Octavo. The dedica-
tion is dated December 15th, 1828.

1829. — "Tabula Mancuniensis," or a chronolo-
gical table of events, comprising within the
compass of a few pages the history of the town and
neighbourhood of Manchester, from the remotest
period to the present time ; or a concise statement
of every remarkable event which has occurred in
Manchester and its vicinity, whether regarding iU
antiquities, churches, chapels, public buildings,
extensive trade, or history. Highly useful as a
pocket companion or reference book. By James
Butter worth, author of various miscellaneous works,
Manchester : Printed by J. Bradshaw, 34, Church-
street, 1829. Octavo. Title as above and tabula,
16 pp. Contents : — Historical events ; churches
chapels, and when founded ; j)ublic buildings and
when founded ; tride, manufactures ; newspapers,
&G., when commenced ; eminent men. A copy in
Manchester Free Library, No 26,829 ; and copy in
Oldham Free Library. Second and tliird editions,
by Edwin Butterworth, were published in 1832 and
1834.

1829.-:-** An Historical and -Topographical De-
scription of the Town and Parish of Bury, In the
County of Lancaster." By James Butterworth,
author of the histories of Manchester, Rochdale,
Stockport, Oldham 4 Ash ton-under-Lyne, &c. Man-
chester : Printed by W. D. Varey, St. Ann's-
square, 1829, Duodecimo. Title and history, 18pp.

1829. — ** The Instruments of Freemasonry
Moralised." Dedicated to John Crossley, Roch-
dale, Esq., J. P., D.L., 1829.

1830.— ** A Gazetteer of the Hundred of SaUord,
in the County of Lancaster." Comprising the
parishes of Manchester, Bolton, Bury, Rocddale
Oldham, Athton-under-Lyne, Middletou, Prest-

210 Noras AKD Qlbakiitosi.

wioh, DeaD, Flixton, and Eccles. By James

Batterworth, author of various misceilaneous worka.

Manohester: Alex. Wilkioaoo, AdvertUer Office^

Market-street, 1830. Octavo. Title and Gazetteer,

24 pp. Copy in Manchester Free Library, No.

40,8C1. J. H.

(To he continued.)

Some Reminiscences of the Origin of Holy

Tbinity CHmcH, Watebhead.
I was pleased and surprised some fortnight ago
to receive from a kind but unknown friend the
first three parts of your "Local Notes and Glean-
ings," and my niece has now favoured me with
your last weekly issue of the Expresn^ cc^taining
remarks of much value respecting the above
church. I imagine the writer, ** W. B.," must be
an esteemed friend of my boyhood, who, though
resident at Waterhead, was an attendant at Hey
Chapel, and was regarded, for his great abilities,
and the assiduity with which he cultivated them,
both by reading and observation, as one who
would hereafter be the possessor of a vast
fund of knowledge and information. If I am
right in my conjecture, as I believe I am,
then *'W. B.," though he would doubtless be
*' among the little band who attended " the ** first
services ** in the *' Old Cathedral," was not one of
the Waterhead gathering proper, that is to say &
Jixed attendant, though a frequent visitor from
Hey, and a constant ou -looker as dwelling in the
village. He will, therefore, I am persuaded, take
no offence at an old friend, who was most inti-
mately connected with Waterhead Sunday School
and congregation at the very Jirgl, for adding a few
ncidents to the valuable information he has already
given. I well remember the advent of the Rev.
Patrick Henry Reynolds to Waterhead, and his
earnest desire to establish a Sunday school, as well
as gather a congregation of adult worshippers, and,
although but a boy, on the day previous to the
opening (being from the mere novelty of the
V ing, if from no higher motive, anxious
that it should be successful) I visited

Oldham aud Nxiohboushood. 211

my relatives the Wolfendens and the Barr
lows (a braDch of that family), and invited the
children to attend. I also called on my school-
fellows, the Wroes, who, as well as the others^
promised to come, and all these actually did so on
the Sunday morning. Amongst us we enHsted a
few more. This was the first commencement of the
Church Sunday School at Waterhead. Mr.
Reynolds was the only teacher, properly so-calledf
though he asked me to take charge of one or two of
the lesser ones. A little further description of the
premises may not be out of place. The two upper
rooms of the cottage were partially turned into one.
The whole of the partition wall was not taken
away, only a portion being removed. For say a
yard or a yard and a half from the windows on the
north the wall was left intact; then an opening
was made of say three or four yards in length, and
the same in height, and thepartition wall on the south
of tbisbreachwasleftuntouched. In this openingthe
pulpit was placed, with its back to the north, close to
the cdgQ of the partition wall. Thus one-half of it
extended into each room, and its occupant looked
south, and could command a view of the congrega
tiou in each division, and could be well seen by
them. There was another very useful article, one
very essential to comfort, which also served both
divisions. This was a stove, for which an aperture
was made in the south partition wall, its door and
much of its body being in the west room (for the
benefit of the boys), the remaininc; portion and
funnel being in the east room (for the comfort of
the girls). Any of the remaining original congre*
gation will well remember what an unpolished and
scorched look it had, and how hot " old Sam's '*
firijgs up made it, so that the more wary avoided
its immediate vicinity. ** Old Sam " was a Penin-
sular hero, retired on a small pension, which he
strove to add to by attending to the cleaning of the
room, and other little duties. The pulpit was
purchased for a sovereign, from the former
tenants, who had migrated to Hey wood- street
(then called Treacle • street), to premises
fitted up with pews, singing gallery, and

212 Notes and OLBAirmoat

pnlpit ''all complete.'^ I can well remember the
old pulpit for the " Old Cathedral " being lowered
from an upper window of a house situated at the
bottom of what is now Church-street, where it had
beun under the charge of Mr. John Dunkerley, who
Wis at that time the leader of the '*Greenacres
Auxiliary" force, whence it was conveyed to its old
position in Sidebottom*str^et. Mr. Reynolds also
purchased a small table, about the size of a dressing
table, from Mr. James Street, who also made a
small footstool for kneeling purposes, which I think
was the only resplendent piece of furniture, the top
belog covered with crimson velvet fastened to the
wood with bright brass nails. Whether any articles
other than these and the tin scones for the candles
twhich **01d Sam" occasionally extinguished in his
efforts to brighten up the flame by curtailing the
wick), were purchased I cannot say. But this
I know, there were some given, and a great many
bdrrowed. The vicar and churchwardens of
Blakeley, on Mr. Reynolds's leaving them, kindly
allowed him to bring away a white cloth for com-
munion purposes, also an old crimson velvet one,
for the table on non-communion Sundays ; a very
neat, ovftl, marble font, which, having no pedestal

^ was fastened to the wall behind the pulpit by a sup-
port of iron scroll-work. This font, when not re-
quired, was covered by a raised top of dark wood,

' surmounted by a gilt figure of a dove. I think the
large Bible and Prayer-book for the pulpit
also came trom Blakeley. It has often
been a matter of wonder to me what has be-
come of these articles. The only one of which

^ I can speak accurately is the old crimson cloth
for the table, which, on the opening of the

' church, was made into coverings for two kneeling

' hassocks, and placed on the north and south sides

* of the holy table, within the communion rails. The
late Mr. John Dawson gave some desks, which

' were placed round the rooms, and were utilised by
Mr. Reynolds for a night school which he insti-
tuted. I fancy he also gave some benches or forms ;
but there were three or four wonderful benches

• horroiaed from Glodwick Church. That church

Oldham and Neiouboubhood. ^13

"was not wholly pewed at first, but much of the
middle space was occupied by good strong benches,
i^ith ends similar to those of a pew, from which
ends ran a rest for the back. These benches, wheoi
lent to Waterhead Sunday School, were used for
the Bible classes ; and I may remark, in passing,
that on them there have sat at the same time, from
Sunday to Sunday, four who are now clergymen^
viz., the Revs. James Schofield, John Stott, Thos.
Newton Rigby, and Thomas Henry Whitehead. It
is also remarkable that these four were confirmed at
the same time by the first Bishop of Manchester,
Dr. James Prince Lee, at the first confirmation he
held in S. James's Church, and all four received
their first communion at the same time in Holy
Trinity Church, Waterhead, at the first celebratioa
after the confirmation. But to return. The energy
of Mr. Reynolds was untiring. He quickly gathered
a large congregation around him, as well as an
overflowing Sunday school. Extra teachers had to
be obtained, and thetfe. were borrowed from kind Mr,
Grundy, at Hey. Before this, however, the Holy.
Communion began to be regularly celebrated.
Except the few teachers lent by Hey, few were
willing to leave Mr. Grundy. But the few Church
people who previously attended S. Jameses, viz..
Miss Beswick, the Brideoakes, Leaches, and
Mayalls, and one or two others, began to worship
in the ' *01d Cathedral, "and though I cannot remember
the date, I perfectly remember the first celebration
held there, and, though but a boy and unconfirmed^
was a spectator of it from a distant part of the
room. I he fact is that as there were no church-
wardens, or other officials, I was requested
to remain to take charge of the vessels after
the service, and gladly did so. I might perhaps
have been dignified by the name of '* Acolyte " by
the High Church party, and have been robed in 9
surplice. But surplices for choir or other boys had
not yet come into use, except in real cathedrals^
and the Rev. P. H. Reynolds would have denounced
such as ** rags of Popery !" How things hav^
changed since then ! The vessels for the communioa
had to be borrowed. Dr. Leach, ever ready to

214 NoTBS A.VD Gleakikgs.

help, at the solicitation of his amiable wife (who has
long since passed to her rest), lent a silver cup,
handed down to him from his forefathers.
The paten was represented by a glass
plate. Flagon there was none. The table before
spoken of was placed immediately in front of the
pnlpit (in the breach in the partition wall), covered
with a '*fair white linen cloth," and the elements
tipon it. In front of the table the crimson coveted
kneeling stool stood. Only one could communicate
at once. I believe the first to communicate was
good old Miss Beswick. She was blind, and had
to be led up by her maid, who also communicated
afterwards. Mrs. Bridecake, Mrs. Leach, JSfrs.
Wain, and the Misses Mayall — and, I fancy, Mrs.
Street and Mrs. Wolfenden — may have communi-
cated also. If they did not do so on this first
occasion they did soon after, as did many others.
The kneeling stool for one had to be dis-
<sarded, and a sort of very low form or
bench was substituted, which would accommodate
three or four at once. Both congregation and
Snnday school continued to grow and prosper.
Messrs. Thomas Green Bridecake, and Robert, his
brother, became diligent teachers, and, on one
memorable occasion, were the means of bringing in .
a set of youths who beforetime had passed their
Sundays in thoughtless carelessness. One Lord^s
Bay these had gone out to the neighbourhood of
Paulden to enjoy themselves as usual, when, by
Some means, one of them fell into a well or pit,
probably a partly-made shaft to a coalmine,
never wholly filled in. There was great
fear for his life, and his companions had
to extricate him by holding one of their
remaining number down the opening, who took
hold of the friend fallen in, and by dint of the
strenuous exertions of those above the rescuer and
the rescued were drawn to safety. The Bridecakes,
hearing of this, seized the opportunity of ex-
postulating with these desecrators of God's holy
'day before their fears had subsided, induced them
to come to the Snnday school, taught them when
there to aini at better things, and otherwise took a

Oldham akd Nbighbourhood. 216

.:|ppeat interest in them. Both the Bride-
^oakes were warmly attached to music,
and speedily aimed at lormiog a good
choir. Mr. George Halkyard, was the first
r&iponsible leader of the choir, the brothers Bride-
oake, though exercising the greatest influence and
using their utmost efforts for its advancement,
acting, of course, only as volunteers. Halkyard,
however, could not be relied upon at all times, and
a change- was made. A very respectable man and
able musician' from Lees was enga^d to lead and
instruct. I knew him ^ell, but cannot just now
recall his name. The description of , Mr. Jonathan
Galloway, mentioned in your last notice, might
be applied to him, but that came does not
associate itself with him in my mind, nor
ean I \ecdll anyone so designated as con-
aeoied with the singing in my time, and
fancy he must have been introduced later, unless
■ there is some mistake as to the name. There was
a Mr, Ga$coigne, also hailing from Lees (as did the
musician I remember), who, when things had got
pretty well established, acted as clerk for a short
time. Bat he played no musical instrument, nor
was he responsible for the psalmody. The leader
to whom I refer took great pains, and was much
liked ; but his health failed, he gave up his post,
and not long after died. The burly frame of Mr,>
Lawton rises before my imagination. How he
managed to convey himself to his seat as
conductor in the new church by the narrow,
winding stair, which led to the singing gallery, is a
mystery to me. Of his daughters, mentioned by
*^ W. B.,'* Eliza had a deep and powerful voice ;
Sarah, a very sweet, but less powerful, one. When
flinging together at concerts, &c.> it was charming
to hear them, and they always were well ap-
plauded.

But we have not yet got the funds together for
the much-needed church. How was this managed ?
Mr. Reynolds, the incumbent-elect, formed a
Building Committee. He himself was, of course,
mt the head ot it, and it also com-
pn9od the following :— Dr. Leach, Messrs.

216 NOTKH AND GLKANINGS

Thumas G. Brideoake, Richard Warelog, William
liowarth, and Henry Whitehead. There may
have been one or two more, but of these only can £
speak positively, and I do so because I some years
ago saw a printed list which did not i^ontain all
these names, and in which others appeared, one
that of a gentleman who did not become a Church-
man until after the church was actually built and
consecrated. It is most probable th&t Mr. Mayall
was on this committee, but I cannot speak of him
with certainty as being so at first. It will be
noticed . that of the members none now survive
but the Rev. P. H. Reynolds and Dr. Leach I
A general subscription was decided upon, and the
village was canvassed for that purpose. Old Miaa
Beswick generously put down her name for £50.
Putting this aside there was no higher subscription
than £10 promised in Waterh«ad, and not many to
that amount. This was considered a large sum in
those days. Some doubled this afterwurds. Dr.,
Leach being one who did so, and, *as will hereafter
be seen, Mr.^ Thomas Brideoake became far away
the largest contributor. Collecting cards were
taken round to the less wealthy of the
population, many of whom gave to the best
of their ability ; but the whole amount gathered
in the parish was but a small portion of what
would be required for the work. Church building
eocieties were applied to, and afforded valuable
help. Still a vast sum was wanted, and the in-
cnmbent-elect set about that system of begginj]^
from the country at large, both by letter and by
personcd application, which has rendered his name
famous amongst church-building clergymen.

Mr. Sidebottom, as a large landowner in the
parish, gave the site for the church. The letters
sent out, seeking aid for the laudable object, must
be reckoned, not by hundreds, but by thousands.
Waterhead does not know the amount of down-
right actual work Mr. Reynolds went throus;h to
secure a consecrated house of prayer for it. For
it must be remembered, that he did not merely
write one letter, and get it lithographed, as is now
usually done, and enclose copies of this in directed

Oldham and NEioHBOURHdon 217

envelopes, but actually went through all the
drudgery of a clerk's work, writing and directing
thousands of epistles, craving donations in his own
neat hand-writing. The gentleman who described
him as sending out '* buckets full " did not
-aay too much. It was wonderful how money
came in. Royalty itself held out a helping
hand to the spiritual destitution of Waterhead.
Adelaide, the then Queen Dowager, forwarding
either twenty pound3 or twenty guineas ! The
prospect was so encouraging that the work of build-
ing was commenced, as the tunds were still being
solicited and collected. Every additional stone
was a joy to the earnest clergyman, who continually
. visited the rising building to see how it progressed.
Whenever he returned from a hunt for funds it was
his practice, let the weather be what it might, or
hioKBelf ever so weary, to hasten to the beloved
spot to discover how much nearer the (edifice came
to completion. Even if the night proved too dark
to nee, he would go to /eeZ how much higher the
walls had grown, until they had grown so much
that the measure was too great for him to take in
this manner, tall as he was ! It has been correctly
stated in your former notice that there was no for-
mal layins; of a foundation stone. But many
may remember that when the work was well ad-
vanced the Sunday schools of Waterhead and Hey
united in procession on Whit-Friday, wended their
way to the building, and entered its walls, and
that on this occasion some documents and papers
.were deposited, if not beneath a stone, close to one,
the spot chosen for the purpose being at, or near,
the foot of the south pillar of the entrance to the
chancel. There was sung a song of joy on the
occasion, and no doubt there was a short service of
prayer. I do not suppose many va:i.uMe coins were
deposited, as these would be required for the work,
"W. B.*' has written a short, but pleasing
account of the subsequent consecration when the
bnilding was completed. There was likely to be a
delay before the ceremony could be arranged
-for. A church must be out of debt when con-
lecrated, and, alas, a large amount was

213 Notes akd GLBAviNas

•till wantiog before all ooald be paid ofL The
matter was arranged in this manner. One or more
of the committee had to beoome responsible fat the
sum required to pay the tradesmen, Ac., and
trust to being repaid alterwards by future eub*
scriptions, or collections in the church, though
they could have no legal daim on the church itself.
How many of them joined in doing this at the
time I cannot say ; but Mr, Thomas Bridebake at
length became responsible for the whole deficit,
and some years afterwards generously made a pre-
sent of it to the church, thus virtually becoming a
subscriber of many hundreds of pounds. His
name ought to be held in everlasting remem-
brance, not only for this noble dead, butforthi^
many labours of love he aetually performed.
I think tVaterhead Church must have been^
one of the last which Dr. Sumner ooa-
secrated as Bishop of Chester. It was not iM
last, as the church at East Crompton was conse-
crated by his lordship on the day following. He
Wiis shortly' translated to Cantetbury, and Water-
head ceased to be a part of the see 6f Chester, the
new diocese of Manchester being formed, to wfaldi
the parish now appertains. The aged prelate had
a most venerable appearance in the pulpit. He
charmed all at Waterhead who were privileged to
approach him by his kind and unassuming manner.
He stood, for a few moments, about the middle of
Hcllow-road, as, after the ceremony, the prooessloa
of clergy, building committee, and distinguished
visitors accompanied him to luncheon in one of the
rooms Of the newly built, and as yet unoccupied,
addition to New Royd Mills (kindly lent for the
purpose by Messrs. Lees and Mills), in order
to admire the newly consecrated pile, the
view of which was uninterrupted at that
point, no buildings then intercepting the pros-
pect. He expressed his pleasure at the goodly
Bight and then passed on, doubtless rejoicing in
heart that he had been privileged to set apart
another building to the honour and glory of God.
It seems to me that he was one of the last bishops
who wore the episcopal wig. I never remember

Oldham and Nicigubourhood. 211

seeing another who wore it.

Not very lobg after the opening of the churcli
the Sunday school ceased to be held in the rooms
before nsed, and the teaching was done in tiic
chnreb, where there was more space, besides which
the rent conld ill be spared. The benches boirowc*!
from Christ Church, Glodwick, were returned to
their own home, where they were now more
required, and the other furniture was retnnved.
The door of the " Old Cathedral" was closed, but
the noble work there inaugurated still goes ou ar<l
prospers.

The Miss f^swick referred to above was usually
styled *' Old Miss Beswick," in no disparagiug
sense, but rather as a mark of veneration and re-
spect for her character, as well as to distingui^'h her
from the younger members of her brother's family.
She was a truly Christian woman. Her eyesight
had been impaired by working too closely at draw-
ings and paintings for a charitable bazaar at Roch-
dale, and at length totally failed her. She had,
however, a faithful servant, who, like the patriarcli,
'* was eyes to the blind" (Job xxix., v 15). It was
customary, on seeing the old lady when out for Iter
walks, to move to her as a token of respect, though
you might be on the opposite side of the road and
well knew she could not perceive you. Her mai<l
would inform her of the circumstance. She would
return the salutation most courteously, as though
she had sieen you perfectly, and, if you were on the
same side of the road as herself, would most pro-
bably favour you with a few kindly words. She
was called from this scene of trial some^ few yearg
after the church was opened, and her remains rest
peacefully in its yard, on the south side, not very
far from the porch. *' Mary," the faithful servant,
^as not unprovided for in her mistress's will.

After Mr. Reynolds had been in the parish about
three years he received a grant from the Fastoral
Aid Society for a lay agent, and availed himself of
the services of Mr. Henry Whitehead, who not
only visited the sick and whole in Waterhead itself,
but periodically made a circuit of the outlying
districts of the parish, which then included Grains

220 NoTXS AND Gleanings.

Bar, Moorslde, Count Hill, Watersheddings, Little-
nioor-Iane, Top of Moor, Gieenacres, as well as
Crowley and theBarrowshaw8,8ome of the first-named
of which have since been formed into a separate
parish. His visits were gratefully received
bv manv, as he read woods of comfort to the^
sick and sorrowful, and were often valaed
where it was necessary to reprove. He instituted
the sick and funeral club in connection with the-
Sunday school, and was for many years its honorary
secretary. The society has been of great benefit ta.
many, and still flourishes and prospers under the
preiient able secretary, Mr. Benjamin Harrop. He
left Waterheai for Greenfield when Mr. Reynolds
resigned to proceed to Birmingham. After a life of
usefulness he breathed his last surrounded by th&
hills of his native Saddleworth in January, 1859.
Of the earnest, voluntary workers into whom Mr»
Reynolds infused a great portion of his own enthu-
siasm one cannot speak in too high terms of praise.
They were not only a numerous, but a willtDg
band. Every one is deserving of commendation, but
it is impossible even to mention the names of all,
and it would be wrong to make invidious distinctions.
None, however, will be offended by the mention
made of Mr. Thomas Brideoake, the most promi-
nent teacher in the boys' Sunday school, and who>
not' only there, but in all things connected with the
church and parish, assisted to the utmost of hi»
power. His memory will always be dwelt upon
wibh respectful thought by the scholars and the
congregation at large. There is one teacher in the
girls* school, also, who took such a leading and use-
ful part that her name cannot be omitted— I refer
to Miss Martha Schofield, whose energy never
flagged. At much self-sacrifice she managed not
only to be ever present on the Sunday, but did not
npfi^lect the members of her class during the week.
Nor were her efforts for good confined to these. At
a time when mothers* meetings, now so common,
were unknown, she gathered grown up women,
mothers of families er otherwise, on a week-
ilay evening, to give them biblical instruo*
tion, and aid them in any way she could

Oldham akd Nbiqhboubuood. 221

"by her sound advice. And this she did, not in a
little fit of goodness, which, however earnest whilst
it lasts, too often is seen to vanish away as quickly
«8 it rises, hut perstver'mqly^ year after year. Of
no woman could it be more truly said that her life
-seemed to be guided by the text, ** Whatsoever thy
hand findeth to do, do it with thy might " (Eccles.
iz., 10). No difficulties could daunt her, no
opposition stay her. She had the courage and
determination of a Boadicea, happily used in con-
straining her sex, young or old, to join the army of
*' the Prince of Peace," and become soldiers of the
cross. She did a vast amount of good in Water-
head, and only ceased her labours there to enter
upon others in the parish of her husband, on
her marriage to the first • named of the
clergymen mentioned before as sitting on the
borrowed benches in Waterhead Sunday School.
The Rev. P. H. Reynolds left Waterhead in
1854 for the living of S. Stephen's, Birmingbam,
where now, as Dr. Reynolds, he is still labouring
on in the same good old cause, though in another
portion of the great Master's vineyard. He cannot
there be more beloved than he was at Waterhead,
for that is impossible. To us it seems a pity tliat
he quitted so prosperous a work as he had there
inaugurated, and which was still makiue; rapid
strides. But he was wanted elsewhere, and the
infiant church he had tended and reared had to be
tested to see whether the work would stand with-
out his fostering and directing. A great portion
of that work — though called upon to pass through
many and many a trial after his departure — came
out of the furnace like gold purified by the fire, and
I feel convinced that the present worthy vicar of
Waterhead (Rev. J. G. French) would freely con-
fess that his work in that parish is greatly aided
■by many helpers who still love both church and
school where they often listened to words of
insdom and of love proceeding from the lips of its
Indefatigable first incumbent.

April 26th, 1887. T. H. W.

I have now ascertained that the name of the
musician, mentioned as from Lees, was Mr. John

222 KOTXS AND QLKANZK08.

Moores. His penevering eflforts in instructing th»
choir, and the kind manner in which he discharged
his duties, were highly appreciated. The persons
specially engaged to teach the singers come in the
following order : — Messrs. George Halkyard, John
Moores, and Joseph Lawton. I am informed that
Mr. Jonathan Galloway undertook the post subse-
quent to my leaving the locality. Messrs. Thomas
and Robert Bridecake, however, were at the foun-
dation of the choir, and yolnntarily laboured as
hard as, if not harder than, any of these. To im
prov-e the singing was to them a labour of love,
and tlieir gratuitous aid was so highly valued that
tiieir word was law. Any grating sound was
most excruciating to the ears of the brothers
Bridcoake. The following anecdote may be
recorded to illustrate this : — A gentleman, who
fancied his vocal powers were of no mean order,
attended the services of the " Old Cathedral " for a
time, and planted himself exactly opposite to the
sin^rers, at a little distance from their seat.
Wlicther the notes in his book did not agree with
tliosp used by the choir I cannot tell, but certainly
the notes which issued from his lips did not accord
nitb those which flowed from theirs. This was
very irritating to the singers, and on one occasion
instead of harmony there was such distressing dis-
cord that Mr. Robert's equanimity was completely
upset, and at the conclusion, feeling his pent-up
indignation must have relief, he exclaimed fsoUo
voce), ** If I'd only a hot potato I'd soon stop him."
Tiie inference drawn was that he would have
taken such accurate aim with the edible as to sup-
ply the offender's mouth with other occupation than

that of uttering inharmonious sounds.

T. H W. •
April 29th, 1887.

How Oldham Celebrated the Jubilee Txab op the
Reign of King Geobge IIL, 1809-10.

Mr. John O'Niel sends me an old handbill, of which
tlje followmg 18 a copy : —

To the Rev. Mr. Winter, of Oldham.

Dear sir, — We, the undersitnied, being informed
tb.1t it is your intention to preach the annual sermon

0U>HAM Air]> KlXOHBOUBBOOD. 223

on Wednesday next for the benefit of the Sunday
flchoolB under the Established Church, and havinqralso
seen a notice for the constables of Oldham calling an
adjourned meeting of the inhabitants of this township,
to be holden at the Angel Inn, in Oldham aforesaid,
on Monday next, at 10 o'clock m the forenoon, for the
purpose of taking into consideration the best mode of
celebrating Wednesday next in honour of our most
gracious Kn^i^ then entering upon the fiftieth year of
his reign, take the liberty of requesting that you will
be pleased to postpone such annual sermon in order
to allow the carrying into effect the resolutions which
may be adopted by such meeting of inhabitants, ard
we doubt not but it will be attended with beneficial
consequences at the proposed sermon on a future day.

John Dunkerlet, Robert Whittaker,
Joseph Lees, William Clego, Thomas
Barber, James Taylor, Edward Lees,
Joseph Jones, Junr., Peter Fearnhead,
Henry Barlow.

Oldham, October 20th, 1809.

In consequence of the above respectable requisition,

I beg leave to inform you that I have consented to

postpone the annual sermon for the Sunday schools to

a future opportunity, of which due notice will te

given, and remain, yonrs faithfully,

W. Winter.

Mr. William Rowbottom, whose annals extend over
this period, makes the tollo wing note :—*' October
25th. Wednesday was the anniversary of his
Majesty entering the 50th year of his reighn, or the
jubilee, which was a day of public rejoicing all over
the United Kingdoms ; fireing of guns and cannon,
ringing of bells, and all demonstrations of joy what-
ever. Public dinners given to the lower people was
the order of the day, and the poor in most workhouses
were regaled with plum pudding, roast beef, and ale.
The Jockey Club, holden at Samuel Horrock*s, Old-
ham, set about the laudable purpose of giving dinners
to old people, when 59 persons sat down to a somtious
dinner at Mr. Horrock's, and when dinner was over
they had each a pint of good ale. Their ages together
amounted to 3,971 years. Dinners were given at other
public-houses in the town of Oldham up to the amount
in the whole of 1,200. The staf of the local militia fired
three volltes and a feue-de-Joy, Public service was per-
formed at both church and chapel, and the Orange

224 NoTics AKD Glbakinos.

Societies walked in grand procession and made a fine
show. There was fireworks and fireing of cannon and
nil manner of demonstrations of joy all over the
country." Samuel Andrew.

J&«tttrt«8, fH&tt 14tl), 18^.

NOTES.

{Continued.)
[82.] Holy Trinity Church, Waterhbad.

In addition to the names of those who were
students with Mr. Reynolds, we must not forget
EU Whittaker, who was also preparing for the
ministry, but unhappily died of consumption.
He was a promising young man, and was known
amousr us as Eli of the ** iron memory," his powers
of retention being somewhat remarkable. Of
** boggart" stories and anecdote he had a never-
failing source. We were with him daily durincr
his latter illness, and a day or two before he died
renewed a compact made between three ot us some
time before, viz., thab which of us died first, if it
was possible, he should returu, and reveal to those
left what he knew of the other life. Two out of
the three are now gone into the silent grave.
The results of our agreement we will leave the
reader to guess, according to the idiosyncrasy of hia
or her own mind.

The Rev. Francis Buckley Broadbent succeeded
Mr. Reynolds. He read himself in on the 7th
January, 1855. Mr. Broadbent had not the same
power and eloquence in preaching as his prede-
cessor, but took as great interest i;i his Sunday and
day schools, both of which continued to flourish
under his supervision. A branch Sunday school
was opened at a cottage. No. 41, in Littlemoor-lane,
the old road to Halifax. Shortly the school was
removed to larger and more suitable premises in
Shrewsbury-street, a cross street lying between
Lit tlemoor -lane and Ripponden-road. Service is
conducted here on Sunday afternoons. It is pro-

Oldham and NcicHBOUKUOor. 225

^posed to build a mission church iu this district, a
committee having just, been appointed for the
pforpose.

Daring Mr. Broadbent's incumbency a room for
infants was added to the schools at Waterhead,
and a house, which he had built for liitnself, was
bought and enlarged. It is now the vicarage
belonging to the parish. Foundations for a tower
-and spire were put in at the same time as those of
the church, but for want of money they could not
be proceeded with. Efforts, however, bep[an to be
made about 1868 to raise the necessary funds.
By means of concerts, tea parties, private sub-
scriptions, collections, and finally a Christmas
stall, sn^Scient money was raised, and* on the
22nd of May, 1873, the Messrs. Mallalieu, of
Ansterlands, commenced building. The work was
finished December, 1876, the cost being over
£1,400. The hcis[ht is 124^ feet. The vaue
which tops the spire is 8 feet, and is the gift of the
late Edward Ma3^all, Esq. The bell was presented
by the late Thomas (Jl. Brideoake, Esq., whose in-
scription it bears— "Thomas (5 been Brideoaki:
Gave Me. A.D. 1876." To the tower and spire
land an organ fund was attached, and a new
organ, built by the Messrs. Foster and Andrews,
of Hull, at a cost of £460, was opened
by Dr. Bridge on the 1st of June,
1873. The old organ, as we have said, was
purchased by the wardens of St. Andre\7*s.
Mr. Broadbent was not brilliant. He was not one
to shine in the pulpit, yet his patient, plodding
labour in the parish made up for this. He was a
great house visitor, and had especial care for tho
interests of the young folk of his parish. He was
one of those — of whom there are so many in the
world— 'who was often niisanderstood. What he
meant for zeal in the cause of the church to which
he belonged was often taken for undue meddlesome-
ness and an interference with things which did not
concern him. That he had veiy severe triak to
contend with we all know, and much unnecessary
trouble given to him by these who should have
been sources of hcin and pleasure. For some tiuio

226

NOTKS AKO GLIAlfXKOb;

he was afflicted with a tumour or cancer on his
tongne* which gave him additional pain and
anxiety. This at length proved fatal. He died «t
the 17th January, 16 (> after continuing his
ministry among us 23 years, and was burled at St.
Chad's," Saddle worth. W. B.

f Continued. )

[83.] Regij^ters op Oldham Church.

Baptisms Anno 1586.

£Uizabeth soholes ..\l^^ •«„^/»:,-
ThomasHopwod /^P" "^*^^^J

Easter wyld • bap. Aprill

Ann winterbothom "^

■ Anne soholes Y bap. Aprill

lohn Jacson )

Janne Halle \i,„_ _,„.•;

wiUGreave r*P- '»*'■'

Alice wylde bap. maij

Sussan Halle \. ^ ^^..

James Bondiforth ../*'^P- '''^'^

John Cropper ^

John moris • J- bap maij

Georg Tetlow )

Joane Twvdall bap. Jiiuij

Robart wylile bap. Jnnij

John pares 1,

RafifeWp )*'*P- """'J

Ttiomasin whitheadl. t ,.•
Deborah Taylier ^^P' ^'"^^^

Alice Tavlier \. ^ . ,..

.narybiicley T^P* ^^^^'J

Cycilye Chadderton ..bap. July

Robart Coup
mary leeze ...
J>imes Ransley
Elizabeth mathew...

Kdmund brearley ...). t ,••
Catheriii Taylier /^^P* ^^"'-^

Robart bardsley ...... bap. Augusti j

Ed ward ogden ")

Raffe Tunioughe ... j^bap. Aug
John Andrew

Richard wolffenden ..Sap. Aug
.Toha TiirnouL'he bap. Aug

....«• .

bap. July

xvij

• • •

"J
xvij .

• • ■ ■

XXUlj

xxij
xxix

« •

XIJ

• • • •

xxiuj
xxix

• • •

XV
XXV

xxxj
vii

xiiij
xxviij

OlDKAM and NlItfHBOVBHOOO. 227

b«p. Sep zj

Henry brearley '

John streete .........

Edmnd winterbo-
thum

Johnleeze bap. sep zvj

Edmund Clonshe ...^

Alice whitheaa Vbap. sep xxv

Alice Travis J

Sussanna greaves bap. octob iij

Edward wylde bap. octob ix

Robarthopwod ....-v

Jane bop wod Ibap. octob xix

Elizabeth hobkin . . J

John Cleaton ^

John whitle rbap. octob xzii j

Grace whithead • • • • J

ffabyan whithead . . "I

An ogden • • ... j-bap. octob xzz

Jane kemp • • . J

Anae Hilton bap. novemb xiij

Susanna Taylier bap. novemb zx

Lyddia Turnoughe ..bap. Decemb ij

Jssabell Taylier.. bap. Dec iiij

Anne werrall bap. Jan i

James Taylier basO
tard sone of James j-bap. Jann iiij

Taylier prs J

AUce*Ky«haw*.V.::}'»P- '^*° "'"i

•Sarah bucley "j

niargret Smyth ..••''

mary Scholes bap. Jan xxix

Anthony hopwood^

base son of Edmd j-bap. fifeb • iij

Ashton J

will wyld bap. feb xij

Alice Ashton ^

Thomas leeze lu «f r u •

mwyeleeze ^bap. feb xix

Jenet needle ^

Alice Symth • • . . ^

John wolffenden..... r bap. feb xxiif

Joane Coup )

Edmund whithead ..^

John mellor lu^« ri

Jane Taylier f^P* ^^^ "^^^

Jsabell wilson ^

228 KOTKS AKD GLSAXlSrCKI.

JoMoa Cadworth • • 1 .

margret halkard. . . . /^P' ™*'*»J *»^

Alice winterbothoml .

lUffe whiUe /**^P- '"^'^J "**

G. Shaw.

NOTES.

(84.] Registers of Oldham Chubch.
Anno 1586 Byriulls

Jsabell Bcholes sep. Aprillia ij

•John scboles sep. Aprill iij

Anne halkard Aprill x

Oorathe whitle Aprill xz

Jane sondifforth ..•• Aprill xiaij

Ann Coup xxiij

Susanna Wol8ten-\

holme f zzTij

Thomaa Hilton Aprill iij

Oenet hameon maij xj

Elizabeth Sharpies ... niaj xiiij

Baffe Turqoughe ....sap. maij xx

Wylliam Goddward.. maij xxv

Richard Crosley sep. maij x x vj

John mathew sep. maij xxx

Elizabeth Taylier.. ..sepult Jniiij xiiij

Janne Halle sepult J ulij iiij

Snssanna hall sepult J ulij v

urilliam scholes sepult J ulij xviij

Edmund hartley .... sepult Julij xxiiij

James scboff^. • . . . .sepult f>ept xvij

John leeze sepult oct<jber xxij

John Street sepult octob xxiij

Edward wylde sepult octub xxvij

Anne mellor • .sepult octnb xxx

John (ii*ydill novemb xv

marfirret halkard sepult nov xxx

Susanna Taylier sepult Decemb ij

John plat sepult Dt^ceb vj

Alexander CoUinge ..sepult Junn j

John Greave sepult Jan ij

Oldham a^^d Nkigubourhcod. 229

TzorRobarHenthorncsep. Jan ziiij

Susanna Asshetoo sep. Jan xxviij

Law. Asaheton sep. fob j

Lydia Tamonghe sepalt f eb viij

Raffe Shawe sepalt f eb xvii j

Jssabell Taylier • f eb xix

vxxor George Taylier feb xx

A child of John Shawes feb xxviij

James Smethnrste .... sep. march j

Jzabell CoUinge march iij

Richard Neeld sep. march xij

John Coup sep. march x vij

Cristopher ogden ....sep. march xx

G. Shaw.

[85.] The Works of the Butterworths.
{Continued,)

WORKS BT JAMES BUTTERWORTH.

Since writing last notice I have come across
some scarce works by both James and Edwin
Bntterworth. The first is '* A Seqnel to the Lanca-
shire Dialect," from which I am able to sive the
foUowimr correct collation, in place of the one pre-
viously given.

1819. — *' A Sequel to the Lancashire Dialect, or
Part Second of the Adventures, Misfortunes, and
Losses of a Lancashire Clown." By Paul Bobbin,
eonsin german of the famous Tim Bobbin, of merry
memory. Manchester : Printed and published by
M. Wilson, Barlow's Court, 1819. Price Is. 6d.
Daodecimo. Second title : " The C nclusion of a
Sequel to the Lancashire Dialect; or, The
Wedding of Tummus o' William's to Seroh o'
Rachot's, being part third and last of the Adven-
tures and Misfortunes of a Lancashire Clown."
By Paul Bobbin, cousin german of the famous
Tim Bobbin, of merry memory. Manchester:
Printed and published by M. Wilson, Barlow'a
Court, Market-street, 1819. Title and adventures*
26 pp. ; observations to the reader, page 27 ;
second tide and conclusion, pp. 28 to 46 ; frontis-
piece, portrait of Paul Bobbin, Esq.

1829.-^" The Lastrumentsof Freemasonry Moral-
ized." By James Butterwortb. Dedicated to

230 NoTBfi AND Glianinqs.

•John Croflsley, of Scaitcliffe, in the parUh of Rocli-
tlale, in the county palatine of Lancashire, Esquire.
The embiems of masonry. Manchester : Printed
by \y. D. Varey, St. Ann's sqnare, 1829. Title
page, as above, and moralizations 8 pp.

'* History of the Four Townships," 1827, from
which I have copied the following, being the fifth
title page, omitted in previous notice: — '*Sonie
memoirs of the late Francis Dukinfield Astley,
Esq., with some extracts from his poems and au
elegy to his memory. (14 lines of verse.) By
James Bntterworth. Manchester : Printed by W.
1). Varey, St. Ann's*sc|uare, 1828." Dedication to
John Crossley, of Scaitcliffe, in the parish of
Rochdale, Esq. Dated Busk, near Oldham, March
3rd, 1828." As this work came out in parts, and
each township was completed, it formed the con-
clusion of a number, so that in most cases they wero
bound up in five volumes ; it is very rare to meet
with them all bound together. I did not include
the following in last notice, as I bad some doubts
as to who the James Butter worth was, but fro oi the
internal evidence I think that there can be no doubt
bnt chat it is J. li., of Alt.

1798. — '* The Manchester Political and Literary
Repository." No. 1. Wednesday, April 4th, 1798.
(Published weekly, price one halfpenny.) AU com-
munications (post paid), viz., songs, enigmas,
queries, &c., or answers thereto, will be gratefully
received by the editor, J. Butterworth. J. Pratt,
printer. Long Millgate, Manchester, and by Mr. J.
Barlow, Oldham. On No. 5, Wednesday, May
2sd, 1798, the last name was changed to J.
Kershaw, Oldham. This paper is rather less than
foolscap, and is printed only on one side. Only 13
numbers were issued. A copy is in the Oldham
Free Library.

James Butterworth was born at Pitses, near Lees,
28th August, 1771, and died at Busk, near Oldham,
23rd November, 1837, and is interred on the north-
east side of Oldham Church.

WORKS BY EDWIN BUTTERWOETH.

1829.—" Biography of Eminent Natives, Rew-

Oldham and Neighbourhood. 231

dents, and Beucfaotora of the Town of Manchester/*
By £dv/in Butterwortli, of Oldham. Printer, J.
Sradsbaw, 34, Church-street, Mtbnchester, 1823.
Duodecimo. Title as above, biographies an^l
- appendix, 33 pp. A copy is in Oldham Free
Xibrary, No. 2,814.

1832. — "A History of Oldham, in Lancashire."
By Edwin Butterworth. London : Chapman and
Hall, 186, Strand. Price, Is. 6d. The preface is
dated Bask, near Oldham, 1832, and the book was
printed at the Albion Press, by O. Evans, Church-
'Street, Oldham. It contains a map of the parish
-of Oldham. Title as above, dedication and history,
54 pp. Appendix paces 55 to 62. A copy Man-
chester Free Librai-y, No. 37,488.

1833.— *^A Chronological History of Manchester,"
brought down to 1833, including descriptions of
the boroughs of Manchester and Salford, dates of
the historical events to the latest period, and
notices of the manufactures, churches, chapels,
-schools, charities, parochial regulations, public
Imildiogs, societies, companies, police, prisons,
markets, fairs, races, bridges, canal navigations,
the railway, eminent persons, &c*. By Ed win
Butterworth. Manchester : Printed and published
by W, H. Jones, Market-street. 1833. Octavo.
Title as above, preface and history, 20 pp. View
of the Manchester Royal Institution as frontispiece.
'*1834. — "A Chronological History of Man-
chester," brought down to 1834, includine descrip-
tions of the boroughs of Manchester and Salford,
dates of the historical events to the latest period,
and notices of the manufactories, c^mrches
diapels, schools, charities, public buildings,
flodeties, prisons, markets, fairs, races, bridges.
canal navigation, the railway, eminent prrsons, the
parish of Manchester, &c. By Edwin Butteworth.
Second edition, with emendations and additions.
Manchester: Jennings and Cowdrey, 1834.
Octavo. (This is a reprint of his father's *' Tabula
Mancuniensis," with additions.) Title as above,
and chronology, 22 pp. Copy in Manchester Free
Li)>i«ry, No. 3,624.

1839. — ** An Historical Sketch of the Manchester

232 NoTKH AND OMCANINOr*

apd Leeds Railway as far as completed, with
l^eseriptive Notes on the Most Remarkable Ob-
jects Near the Line." By Edwin Butterwortli.
Jloehdale: Printed and sold by E. \Vriglflgr»
Yorkshire-street, Rochdale. Oldham : By D.
Kvmns, E.Wright, J. Dodge, and Green. 1830»
Price Sixpence. Post octavo. Dedicated to Ed-
ward Baioes, Esq., M.P., one of the tmxiy
directors of Manchester and Leeds Railway^
Dated Busk, Oldham, Jnly 8th, 1839. Title,,
dedication, preface, and description, 28 pp. I have
copied the following reviews from a paper written
by Edwin Bntterworth : — ** Historical Sketch of
the Manchester and Leeds Railway. By Edwin
Butterworth. E. VVrigley, Rochdale. ' The
author of this minute and accurate sketch of the
line from Manchester to Littl«iboroagh is advan-
tageously known in this district for his historical^
researches and his correct acquaintance with the
locsltties within view of the Manchester and Leeds'
Railway, he having published one or more bopka
illustrative of that portion of the county. The
sketch before us conveys information which
will be highly interesting to travellers along the-
railway, whether strangers, or persons partially
acquainted with the line. The x>ftnoramic scenerift
with the numerous residences and places of ma&a*
factnring business to be seen on the railway, are
faithfully described. The work will prove a use-
ful railway comDanion.*' — Manchester Times, Sep-
tember 14th, 1839. " An Historical Sketch of the
Manchester and Leeds Railway, &c. By Edwin
Butterworth. This is just such a little sketch as
we should have expected from the precise and
accurate pen of Mr» Butterworth. It eives a briet
history of the origin and progression of the under-
taking up to the present time, and the narration i».
interspersed with many general and curious anti-
quartan notices of the adjacent properties aad*
country. We are quite sure that this little work
only requires to be known to insure an extensive
sale." — AfanchesUr and Sal ford Advertiser, Septem-
ber 14th, 1839. «< In that clever little work entitled
An Historical Sketch of the Manchester and Leedt

Oldham and NsiOHBorRHecm 233

Railway' by Mr. Ed winBatterworth, of Oldham, are
the following notices of ancient halls along the line
of railway, &c." — Mcmchtsttr Chronicle^ September
14, 1839. '* In that clever little work entitled,
* An Historical Sketch of the Manchester and Leeds
Railway^* by £dwin Bntterworth, of Busk, near
Oldham, are the following antiquarian notices, &c.,
Ac," — Manchester Ouardian, September 26, 1839.
"An Historical Sketch of the Manchester and
Leeds Railway, as far as is Completed, by Edwin
Batterworth. Rochdale: £. Wrigley, &c. Al-
though written in a «omewhat pedantic style,
there are some interesting particulars *in the
brochure before us. To parties concerned in the
undertaking of which it treats, it will no doubt be
interesting." — Manchester Courier^ September 28,
1839. '* This is an interesting historical sketch of
the Manchester and Leeds Railway, by Mr. Edwin
Bntterworth, of Oldham." — L^ecls Merctuy, Sep-
tember 21, 1839.

1840.--'* Historical Notices of the Town and
Parish of Middleton, in the County Palatine of
Lancaster." By Edwin Butterworth. Middieton :
Printed and sold by William Horsman. 1840.
duodecimo. Introduction dated Busk, Oldham,
1839. Title page, introduction, addendum, his-
torical notices, erratum, and index, 62 pp.

1840.—** An Historical Description of the Towa
of Hey wood and Vicinity." By Edwin Butfer-
wortb. Arms of Hey wood. Heywood : V. Cook,
printer, Market-place, 1840. Post octavo. Intro-
dnction dated Busk, Oldham, February 2l8t, 1840.
Title as above introduction, and history, 40 pp.
Copy, Manchester Free Library, No. 3,525 ; also a
copy In the Oldham Free library.

{Co7iiimted,)

^r*mm=i^

434 NOTM AMD GlIAITIKM

jKaturlliis, |Kas 28ti), 1887.

NOTES.

[86.] The Works of the Butt£rwobtks.

fOonUnued.)

works by EDWIN BUTTBRWORTH.

1841. ->*• A Statistical Sketch of the Coaaty
TalattDeof Lancaster." By Edwin Batterwortfa.
London : Published, Longman and Co. . . D.
Evans, printer. Terrace Buildings, Oldham, 1841.
Duedecimo. The dedication is to Horatio Nelson,
Esq., of Waterloo, Oldham, and is dated Bnak,
Oldham, January 26th, 1841. Title as above,
dedication and preface, vi. pp. A Statistical Sketch
of Lancashire, pages viL to xl. A [second] Statistical
Sketch of Lancashire, additions, erratta, and index,
168 pp. Copy in Manchester Free Library, No.
-3,526 ; in Oldham Free Library, No. 2,778 ; and in
Store Library, King-street, No. 1,190b.

1842. — " An Historical Account of the Town of
Ashton*nnder-Lyne, Stalybridge, and Dnkinfield."
By Edwin Bntterworth, Bask, near Oldham.
Ashton : Printed by T. A. A. Phillips, stationer,
ftc. Old Cross, 1842. Duodecimo. Title as above,
preface and history, 177 pp. Index v. pp. Copy
Manchester Free Library, No. 3,523. A copy has
just been added to Oldham Free Reference Library.

1845. — ** Views on the Manchester and Leeds
Railway ; Drawn from Nature, and on Stone." By
A. F. Tait, with a descriptive history by Edwin
Bntterworth. Published for A. F. Tait by Brad-
shaw and Blacklook, 59, Fleet-street, London, and
27, Brown-street, Manchester, publishers of the
Railway and Steam Navigation Guide, ftc., Ac.
1845. Folio. Dedicated to the chairman and
directors of the Manchester and Leeds Railway.
There are 19 views, and the letterpress description
occupies 34 pp. Copy in Oldham Free Library.

About 1845 or 1846 he lEuued in parts <* A Con-
cise History of Lancashire.'' By Edwin Butter-
worth. Arms of the Duchy of Lancaster. London :
Published by James Gilbert, Paternoster Row.

* Beviews of Fart 1 are to be found in the papers for

April, 1845.

Oldham aud NmoHjiouiiHOOD. 2^

• . . . , V. Cook, priDter, Heywood. From
some cause or other only four numbers were issued.
I copy from back of wrapper on part one : — ** The
want of a concise history of Lancashire, arranged
on a popular plan, bringing within its scope an
agreeable yet accurate description of the county in
general, and of its several parishes in detail,
appears to be extensively felt. Conscious that such
an undertaking; is therefore desirable for pui^oses
of public utility, and that it is also a worthy object
of private enterprise, the present work is issued as
an humble attempt to provide a comprehensively
useful and interesting epitome of county history,
which, whilst avoiding on the one hand a
needless tedium of attention, will endeavour
on the other to be sufficiently descriptive
of every department of the subject that really
merits general notice. Such legends of the
different localities as are of unusual interest, such
biographical history as presents marked peculiarity
of feature, and such notices of the social condition
of the people as appear to possess more than
ordinary value, will be interspersed «'ith descriptive
accounts of the respective places. The work will
be issued in monthly parts, demy 8vo ; price six-
pence each. It is probable the publication may
extend to fifty parts, or upwards." Notwithstand-
ing thlB attractive programme, and the really in-
trinsic value of the work, from some cause or other
there was a lack of subscribers, and the publica-
tion lagged. From the back of the wrapper on
part 4 I transcribe the following: — •* Notice to
the reader. The publisher, conscious that some
explanation is due to the purchasers of the work
relative to the delay which has taken place in
the issuing of the present part, hereby avails him-
self of an opportunity of assuring them that the
temporary suspensian of the publication has been
wholly occasioned by the necessity of effecting
some satisfactory arrangements with canvassers
And booksellers prior to any further progress being
made. The requisite arrangements for that purpose
having now been completed, thu undertaking will
be proceeded with, much more regularly than

236 IfoTBS A^b Gleaxinos.

heretofore, as from the extremely encouraging'
manner iiith which the early parts have been re-
ceived there is every reason to believe that this
attempt to furnish the county with a satisfactory
topography will be highly snccesfsful.*' In the
face of this it is hard to realise that this was th»
last issue, which only reached to page 126. Copy
in Oldham Free Library.

1847 and 1808.— A «< History of Oldham" wa»
issued in parts ; it was never completed ; it finishes
with the general election in 1847. I have been
told, by those who were likely to know, that more
copies were sold after the author*8 death than before*
As ** Philander " has truly said, poor Edwin was
'*askin£rfor bread, and we gave him a stone" —
when he woa dead for lack of bread. The title
page of the completed numbers is as follows : — Arm»
of Oldham ; Historical Sketches of Oldham, by
Edwin Butterworth.

What is writ— ig writ-
Would it were worthier !

London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman,,
and D. Evans,' Oldham. N> date or preface*
Historical Sketches, 281 pp. Duodecimo.

1856. — ** Arms of Oldham ; Historical Sketohes
of Oldham." By the lato Edwin Butterworth.
With an appendix containing the history of the
town to the present Mme. Oldham : Printed by
John Hirst, 17 (corner of), Church-street, 1856.
Duodecimo. Title and preface iv. pp., historical
sketehes 256 pp. , and 9 pages unnumbered. Frontis-
piece, Oldham Lyceum. It contains at page 66
north-east view of Old Parish Church of Oldham,
at page 112 south view of the Ancient Chapel of
Ease, of Oldham, and a plan of Oldham as it
appeared about 1756. Copy in Oldham Free Li-
brary.

1856.~*< An Account of the Public Charities of
the Parochial Chapelry of Oldham" Compiled
from the parliamentary reports on charities, and
from local information as to their present state.
By the late Edwin Butterworth. Revised edition.
Oldham : Jojin Hirst (late D. Evans and Son),
printer, 28, Yorkshire-street, 1856. Duodecimo.

OLDUAU ASV NXIOHBOVBHOOD. 237

Title page and accoant of charities 24 pp. Copy in
Oldham Free Library. There is an earlier copy oi
this work, but I have not been able to come across
it

Edwin Butterworth was bom Ist October, 1812,
and died at Bask, Oldham, 19tb April, 1848.

Werneth, Oldham. John Hollinhead.

[87.] Holy Tbinity Cuubch, Watebhead.

{Continued,)

Mr. Broadbent was succeeded by the present
vicar, the Rev. John Gouldie French, M,A., on the
Slat of March, 1878. Mr. French was ordained
deacon 1870, took full orders 1871, got his B.A.
1869, and his M. A. in 1878. fle is continuing the
work which his predecessors wrought out for him,
and perhaps finding out that the life of the spiritual
overseer of an energetic parish is no sinecuie. A
penny bank was opened January Ist, 1880, which
is still in existence, and encouragiug the thrift of
the young; people of the village. In 1880 a branch
of the Church of England Temperauce Society was
formed, and in 1881 a new room for infants was
built at a cost of £616. Potts, Pickup, and JOixon
were the architects. The same year a new lectern
was subscribed for, made by Messrs. Thomason and
Sons, of Manchester and Birmingham.

To meet the requirements of an ever-increasinc;
population, a curato was appointed on the 30tfa
September, 1883. He is the "Rev. David Dorrity,
of Trinity College, Dublin ; was admitted to tho
office of deacon by Dr. Eraser, the late Bishop of
Manchester, on the 22rd September. 1883, and
received full orders September 2l8t, 1884. Whilst
compiling these notes he has left us, having
accepted the curacy of St. Margaret's, Whalley
Bange, Manchester. He preached his farewell
sermon on Sunday evening. May 1st, 1887, to a full
congregation. At a farewell paity the evening
betbre he was presented with a small pocket Com-
munion Service and £6 in money. At the quar-
terly tea party, held at Littlemoor lane Sunday
School, April 23rd, he was also presented with a
study desk and writing table. Not Doing a full

238 Nona and OLiANuraii.

fledged bird of much practical experience, we-
sbaU have to let him soar a fenr years, and then
perhaps be able to form an estimate of hu positioi^
among the succeasf nl, or otherwise, workers in the-
Churoh.

In 1884 dry rot made its appearance, and the*
chnrch underwent a thorough restoration and
cleaning at a cost of some £677 78. 6d. The money-
was raised by subscriptions, collections, the profits
on husbands, wives, bachelors, and spinsters' tea
parties ; an husbands- wives-bachelors-spinaters' tea^
party ; grand bazaar, &c. Where all worked so-
il illingly, harmoniously, and well, everyone con-
tributing freely, according to their means, the
widow's mite being as acceptable and holy as the-
rich man's bounty, it would be simply invidious to
mention names. For this purpose the church waa
closed on the 10th of March, and re-opened on Whit-
Sanday, June 1st of the same year, 1884. The fre&
scats at the west end were pewed, and added to the
church. While it was closed divine service waa
held in the infants' school. Messrs. John Dyson
and Sons did the joinery work, William Hall the
plumbing and gasfitting, and R. Bennett, of
Manchester, the painting and decorations.

If we can claim nothing in the shape of hoary
antiquity for our Pariah Church, nor boast of a
registry carrying us down the vistas of those dark
ages when religion was struggling to rid herself of
those upas superstitions and gross errors which
grasped her so firmly, and had well nigh suffocated
her, and although it contains within its walls no
''storied urn," or ''animated bust," to proclaim
unknown virtues to a gaping crowd, or mutilated
eifigy to tell of the blood-stamed glory and mundaue
greatness of the " forefathers of the village," wo
flatter ourselves that we have one of the nicest and
most comfortable places of worship in the diocese.
The ornamentations are chaste, and the colouring,
with a slight incongruity in the nave, harmonious
and pleasing. The accustic properties are good,
the size of the building necessitating a full round
voice to fill it. The services are lively,
aud the attendance more than average. The

0U>HAM AMD KUCIHSOVBHOOD. 859

cuahioiiB and books for the communion table are ther
fph of Miaa Ada Leea (Mci. Albert E. Beaiiinont)^
and tte bnua vaBe in feootwoe^aeed by '* Sarah
Swafles, May, 1884, in loving memory of her dear
husband, John Swailes, Moorhey House, Water-
head, who died September 25th, 1883." Miss
Leach has given a timepiece for the vestry ; and a
brass bookstand is presented by the members of
communicant classes.

Well, if the church is modern, the village, now
parish, is old ; and if no particular *' dauntless
Hampden " or ** silent Milton " cah be pointed out
to the eoclesiolofl;ist and touristical enthusiast, the
parishioners have nobly played their part in the
great religious, political, commercial, and social
life of the country. But had we not the martial
forefathers of the village? Ask of Muffin-row
and Treacle-street, a neighbourhood whence Dr. Cox
fled in dismay, there being so little need for one of
his profession, the hand-loom weavers being so
healthy and strong. And yet every house had one
or more empty chairs, their occupants having been
either enlisted, pressed, or gone out as a substitute
for others to fight for king and country, while
their mothers, wives, and sisters were leit behind
to cheer themselves with the ditty of ** The Treacle-
street Wives." flow delighted we lads used to he
to hear a Haigh, or a Mellor, or some other old
veteran, as he sat in front of the Gardeners' Arms,
with a lone; clay pipe in his mouth (cigars were
almost unknown then), and a gill of home-brewed
ale beside him, talk the warm summer's evenings
(these, too, almost things of the past), away and
weep

O'fit bis wounds, or, tales of sorrow don(^,

Shonldered his cmtch, and showed bow fields were won.

Yes, the village is indeed ancient, the lower part
of it being situated on one of the old roads into
Yorkshire. There was formerly no bridge over
the Mbdlock, the river being forded. Pack horses
used it, and Lees', Pickford's, and Ken worthy's
huge four-horse waggons, driven by the jolliest
white-smocked and red -faced drivers. And thete
was the four-in-hand coaches, too, which ran daily

between York. Leeds, Wakefield, Hoddenfield,
and Manobesier. Who of u that Is old enoagh
does not remeinber the *' Cornwallis," and cannot
yet feel the smart of the *' Whip behind !"* One,
John Milhench, wlU ever have cause to remember
it. Where, too, were there such smart gnards,
keeping watch over the four insiders, and tluowing
the mail bags or costly newspapers to their re-
cipients, and soanding their horn to warn quadru-
peds and bipeds out of their way ? Was their time
not limited, having to do the distance between the
city of churches and that of cottons in ten hoars ?
And those canvas- covered teasel— i>»paactt8 JuUo-
7iium— carts, following one another like the yellow
vans of WombwelFs menagerie ! Where was the
lad, or lass either, who had not had many a race
and many a whipping for cribbing ivuRt one to comb
his or her hair with ? And, oh ! that old thatched
house, lately pulled down, at the bottom of ^ ill
Brow ! Had it not a history of its own ? It dated
from 1686, tempus James 2Qd. There old Jacob
Tweedale died from a fall, and his widow kept a
schooL Jacob's father bailed fiom the " land o'
cakes," coming over, we are told, with Charlie, in
the memorable '45. Jacob was overseer for Saddle
worth, and some time clerk of St. John's, Hey.
Later on, at the other end of the building,
old Fanny Wareing kept a school. Besides
those we have already mentioned who left the
jenny-gate for the pulpit, our village was the
birthplace or home of the brothers Bardsley and
the Mayalls, of a Scbolefield and a Wrigley ; of
Bentley, the geographer and statistician ; of the
erudite Dawson, of W. Whittaker, H. Schofield, I>.
Schofield, and many another ardent follower of
Linnaeus, men whose Ions hours of toil did not
prevent them getting a good knowledge of botany
and natural history, a knowledge which extended
far beyond the limits of Oldham and of their own
county. VV. R

Oldham and Neighbourhood. 241
jSfttiirt«s, Itttte U\), 1887.

NOTES.

[88.] Oldham Chapelrt, Temp. Commonwealth.

• The Rev. A. J. J. Cachemaille has kindly placed
•at oar disposal the following two documents. The

■ first, OS will be seen, is from a copy in the hand-
writing of the Ecv. J. Fallowfield. The '* inquisi-
sitions," concerning which he makes a query in his
second "nota bena," are now to be read in the
volaroe of *' Lancashire Church Surveys," pub-
lished by the Record Society in 1879. An account
of the legislation concerniog the Commonwealth

. Survey is to be found in the ** General Report on
the Public Records, 1837." Folio.

'* Whereas by an order of the honourable the late
committee for compounding with delinquents
sitting at Goldsmiths Hall London dated the tenth

r day of December 1646 it is amongst other things
therein contained ordered that Edmund Ashton of
Chatt^ton in the county of Lancaster Esqr should
settle the Rectory o^ Ouldam in the said county of
the yearly value of one hundred and forty pounds
(vizt) fourty pounds per annn upon the Chappell
of Shaw for thn mayntenance of a preaching
minister there for ever, and the remainder upon the
Chappelery of Ohlham for the mayntenance of a
preaching minister for ever. In pursuance ot wch
said order theaaid Edmund Ashton and James Ashton

- his Sonne by their Indenture bearing date the six-
teenth day of December in the year aforsaid made

. between them the said Edmund Ashton and James
Ashton on the one part, Sr Ralph Ashton Barrtt
Alexander Rigby William Ashurst and John
Howlecroft Esqrs : on the other part for the con-
sideration therein expressed did grant bargain and
aell unto the said Sr Ralph Ashton and other the
Trustees before named their Heirs and Assigns for
ever. All tliat the Rectory of Oldham portion of

. Tythes of Corn Grain and Hay and all other

..Tythes Profhts and oblations whatsoever ar-
risiug growing iucreusinfife and renewinge

242 Nons AKD GuAifiiroM

within the several Towaes of Oldham Rytoir
ChAderton and Crompton or thereunto belonging
and every or any of them. To have and to hold
the said Rectory Tythee and Premises with the
appurtenances onto the said Sr Ralph Ashton
Alexander Rigby William Ashnrst and John How
lecrof t their Hdrs and assigns for ever In Trust
nevertheless that they should from time to time
permitt and suffer such godly and orthodox divine
as should by lawfull authority be appointed to
officiate and serve the Cuer and which should
officiate and serve the Cuer of the Chappell of Shaw
in the said county to receive and take the yearly
sum . of fourty pounds out of the profitts of the
same. And should likewise from time to time
permitt and suffer such orthodox divine as should
be appomted to officiate and serve the Cuer of the
Church or Parochiall Chappell of Oldham aforesaid
to receive and take the rest residue and remainder
of the profitts of the rectory Tythes and premises
for his and their better increase and augmentation
of Livelihood. Now to the end it may appear how
and in what manner the said Rectory Tythes and
premises are settled and disposed of, and that the
minister of Oldham aforpf>aid may have and enjoy
one hundred pounds per annn out of the profitts of
the same for the good and iMnefit of himself and
the comfort and satisfaction of the inhabitants
there according to the pyous lotent of the
Parliament I have sent down true copies
pf the said conveyance order and security
for the same to be kept in some con
veuient place for the better maintenance of the
right and title of the minister there unto,
and desier the contents thereof may be published
to the said parishioners, lettinge them farther to
understand that the original conveyance and assur-
ance concerning the same, doe, by order of the said
commissioners, remayne in my custbdy, where I
shall be ready to give satisfaction to the
parishioners or such others as are therein con-
cerned touching the same. And that since my
former orders for settlemts I have now lately
received further order that upon complaint of any

Oldham axd Nuokboubbood. 243

f aUer or breach of covenants, I have power at the
charfl^ oi Parliament to commence and proaecnte
suiteB on the behalf of the parties grieved, which I
shall readily observe as there shall be occasion*
Given nnder my hand, fourth day of Jnne, in the
year of oar Lord Qod 1652.

Edw Rich : of Counsel
for the Augmentations^'
*^N.B.— The aboTS was copied from an old paper
given me by Mrs. Fawcett, widow of the Rev.
Thos. F«iwcett, who was minister of the Parochial
Chapel of Oldham for fortfy years or upwards, this
2nd day of September, 1819,

by me, J. Fallowfield, Mlnr of Oldham.
''N.B. — Parliamentary inquisitions for Salford
hundred, respecting churches, was made in 1660 —
Quere, where to be found ? J. F."

•

[89.] The Oldham PETmoN, 1664.
*' A Copy of Oldm. Petition.

'* Jo the right houn'rble the Lords and Comons
now assembled in Parliament.

'* I'he Humble Petition of ye Inhabitants of Old-
ham in ye county of Lancaster,
Sheweth

"That Oldam jb now reputed to be a Parochial

Chappell to Prestwich ; Though antiently Oldhm

was really a parish of itself, and it hath had con>

atantly Sepulture Baptisms and ye receivinge of ye

Communion administred in it, till ye comence-

ment of these late lycendons tymes, since whea

sevrall Ministers have been forced upon us, &

lately one Robert Constantino ; who hath denied &

doth still deny to pform those Duties aocordinge to-

the Form pscribed by the Liturgy of the Church of

England ; Yet it hath been of late ye custome for

ye Rectors of Prestwich to nominate and appoynt a

. parson to officiate att Oldam ; & by yt means ye

Rector of Prestwich hath gathered Tyths (wch are

of value to maintain an able orthodox minister) &

in Lien thereof hath ever fumisht us with a mendi*

cant Preacher; so yt yor Petitioners I^ths are

withdrawne from them by Strangers~«nd yet ye

parochial Chappell at Oldam not at all supply *d with

244 NoTis AND Gleanikco;

a mmister capable eyther to helpe himselfe or to do
jri|rht to ye Inhabitauts.'^

'* Yor Petitioners therefore doe hnmbly pray yt
"by aa Act of thia poent Parliament wee may be
made a parish of orselves. And yet his moate
eacred Matie (for whose lon^i^ and prosperous Raigne
wee do hearty ly pray) may our Patron ;"

" And wee yor Petitioners and their children's

children shall be bound ever to pray for you and

yors &c."

Ano. Dmi. 1664.

" Edward Kenyon Rector of Prestwich gave
great ofifence to many of the parishioners of Old-
ham as they were given to understand k as his
actins^s seemed to declare yt he intended to divolve
Ouldham in the Pacish of Prestwich & make it a
chapelrie."

'* Whereupon the parishiooers not willing to

loose their ancient rights k priviledges consulted to

join in Petition to the Reverend Father in God

GeorgB Ld Bishop of Chester for Redress of such as

they apprehended Injuries offered by the said

Hector. But the said Petition was not preferred to

the Bp, but kept in the Hand of some of the

Parishioners hoping yt at ye Return of. the Wor-

vsbipfuU Edmund Asheton out of France ; ye

Differences between ye said Rector of Prestwich &

ye Parishioners of Oldham might be friendly

decided."

Ano. Dni. 1665.

"The Churchwardens at their presentments

imediately after Easter presented the above said

Rector for some miscarriages concerning ye Parish

of Oldham in Ano. Dni. 1664."

[90.] Letter of Lord Strange;

We are indebted to Mr. Jonn Radcliffe, of Fur-
lane, Uppermill, for the following copy of a letter in
his possession. The writer appears to be James Smith
Stanley (called Lord Strange), at that' time member
for the county. The name of '* Smith " was assumed
by him on his marriage, in 1747, with the daughter
and co-heir of Hugh Smith, Esq., of Weald Hall,
Essex. It is noteworthy that two of tiiid Lord

Oldham akd Neigsbouruood. 24d

Strange'fl daughters married members of the
Horton family. The first, Elizabeth, was married,
in 1778, to the Rev. Sir Thomas Horton ; and ^he
second, Henrietta, to Sir Watts Horton in the
same year.

The address is as follows :—

••Dec 6 1763 Dear Will.
''I have bat Just time to acquaint you that since
my last I have seen Mr. Grenville, he told me he
h»d spoke to the Kiug, and he believed what 1
aake*d wou'd be done but that his M y said

he hoped the Gentleman had an estate to support
the honour, I told him the estate was a very &:ood
one but that I did not know what, but if he
pleased I would enquire, which he wished I wou'd
do, so if you think proper you will tell me what
answer I shall make him—

I am in great'haste Dear Will
Yours sincerely J. Strange."
To William Horton Esq. at Chadderton nr Man-
chester.
[Barnshall Sheffield.] Strange.
The first portion of the address is crossed out and
the one in brackets interlined. The name Strange
shows it was *' franked " by him.

jfetttrtag, 3ttne lltl), 1887,

NOTES.

[91] Registers of Oldham Chxtrch.
Anno 1587. Cristiniugs.
Richard Hall 1 k«« »««..^:{ «« •

Alice whittaker bap. Aprill ij

Janie bardsley . . • • ^

Alice mathew i

Henry brearley .... l-bap. Aprill xvj

martha Clegg t

mary Clegg J

ZIe%?v?i^:;.::::}'»p- Apriu ^m
ri^?n"ewtn::::KAprm

XXX

SM6 XOTBB AHD GLKAimros.

AzariM Halle \k.^ t««s; s;;;

AUceJacsoD )bap. Jumj uij

James whittaker \|^„ , ,.. ..

Alice langley /^P- ^""^'^ *J

Klizab bradley Imp. Jdlij ix

Alice heap bap. Aug vj

Anne leeze ....^ bap. Aug xiij

Alice Cheetham bap. Aug x vii j

Jsabell hartley bap. Aug xx

S:S^fAn1rewe-;::}'-P- ^"8 "'i

Elizab mylnes bap. Aug xxvij

Alice Cbadderton bap. sep j

Edward bucley ........bap. sep xxiij

margret yeameshawcbap. octob j

Abraham scholes bap. octob xxij

Janne woode ft^iv-^ ^«*«i* ^^w

Anne meall r*P- "^^^ ^^'^

Anne leeze bap. nov ij

wyll ogden

James wylde }-bap. nov xv

Alice wylde

}■

nathan Travis 1 .

Raffe whittaker / ^^'^ ^^"^

Edmnd mylnes 1i t\

Klizab br^rley .... |*^P- ^^ "J

Raffewylde bap. Dec vij

Georg street bap. Dec xvij

Thomas smyth bap. Dec xxiiij

James Taylier. . . • • • 1 « -n * :•

Edmnd Sawe ) bap. Dec xxvij

Anne Taylier Jann xvj

Edward Taylier. • . . ^

Edmnd hilton |-bap. marcij x

Georg hallowes . . . . j

Anne brearley . . . . ^

John Dicson hbap. marcij xvij

James Kyrshaw. ... J

Anno 1587. Burialls.

John bromett . . . • • Aprill i j

Oldham aitd Neighbourhood. 247

Elizabeth Scholes • . . .sepult Aprill iij

Jane Gleydhill xviij of April xviij

Allice Hilton sepult Aprill sxij

Richard mellor sepult ApriH xxiiij

Bichard Halle sepult Aprill xxviij

Alice Kyrshawe sepult Aprill xxx

Jennet sondifforth.... sepult Aprill xxx

Kobart Toulson sepult may v j

William Heape .sepult may viij

n X Rafe Taylier sepult x j

Henry bardsley sepult maij xviij

Jane bardsley sepult eodem die

Raffe leeze sepult maij xxj

Jane scholes et1„^„.,. ^^.. ^„...

> sepult man xxuj

margery Greaves ...J

Agnes Hilton . .' sepult maij xxvj

James Eyrsbawe sepult maij xxxj

Joane Halle sepult Junij iiij

Allice Halle sepult Jnij ix

margret Tonnge sepult Junij xxx

Allice Tonnge sepult Julij j

Jennet Daber sep. Julij ij

William EUam sepult Julij ix

martba Clegg sepult Julij xiiij

Edmund Taylier sepult Julij xviij

John Halle sepult Julij xxj

Henry whitie sepult Julj xxij

Elizabeth hodson sep. Julij ' xxvj

Richard wy Id sepult eodem die

Azarias Halle sepalt Julij xx vij

Mary Shirte sepult Augustij iiij

A Child of Johns Reade. sepult Aug viij

Catherin Tumoughe...sep. Augustij xxij

Robart whittaker sepult sep. Aug xxv

Tho: neeld sepult Augustij xxx

Edward sondififorth ...sep. Septe j

John whitie et| n g ^
Catherin whitle ..... / < >

Henry bucley sep. Sept vij

Jane Smyth sepult Sept viij

JzabeU Chaderton sepult Sep x

Jllizabeth Milnes sepult Septembr xj

Jllizabeth Cowp sepult Septembr xii j

2^8

Notes and Gleanik(].*5

Joane Spykie eU Septembr xiiij

Ai^nes Mathew sepult Septembr xvj

Elizabeth So iriidifforthaepuU Sepult xxx

U argret N eeld sepiilt October xxiij.

Marye lay ler sepult Octobris xxviij

Hicbard Uall sepult Novembris j

Ed ward hartley sepult No veni : ij

E.lmund hop wood sep. nov: v

A nice Buckley sepult Nov : xv

ASarcrrett whithead ...sepult nov: xx

marie hall sepult nov: xxv

Anne yearnsbaw sepult nov: xxvij

Robte Jacksonne sepn It Decembris ij

Elizabeth hill , sepult Decern: iij

Sarah Sykes sepult Dec: iiij

James whittle sepult Deer: viij

Alexander chadderton^

Edmund crompton |- ix

et Allice Smyth J

Margretwild sepult Dec xij

Allice win terbothom.. sepult Dec xv

Ellizabeth colling sepult Dec xvij

Robte mathew sepult Dec xviij

William crompton sepult Dec xx

Hugh Traves sepult Dec xxiiij

Luce Crompton sepult Dec xxv

Alice whithead sepult Dec xxvj

Agnes crompton ....sepnlt Dec xxix

Agnes walker sepult Januarj j

Anne walker sepult Januarj ij

Allice hall sepnlt Januarj xi

michaell buckley sepult Januarj xvj

mari^ret Cowp sep. Jan : xx

ffrancis Brearley sep. Jan xxiij

Edmund Tailer sep. Jann xxiiij

margret whitworth ..sep. Jan xxvij

Jsabell Turner sep. ffebrnary vij

Richard Winter-

botham sep. feb ix

xpoflfer wild sep. feb xj

Anne wild sep. feb xij

Edmund whithead ..sep. feb xvij .

0U>IIAM AMD NbIGHBOURROOB

240

Anne mellor sep. feb

Roger wild. sep. feb

izt;h¥ayiev;;>p- -««

Elizabeth Bardsley ..sep. 'marr

J obn yeamshaw sep. marr

John Ogden .sep. marr

Susan hoUin worth . • • . sep. marr
Ellen hyde sep. marr

xxvj
xxviij

1113

• •

V1.1

• • •

Vllj

• •

XIJ

• • •

xnj

« • ■ •

xnij
xxij

xviij

XXV

Anno Domini 1588. Christnings.

Mylea wyld ")

et iilias Mar- i-bap. January
tin whytehead. ... J

Alice whitehead. .... .bap. January

Edmund Crompton . . '
Elizabeth halkerd • .

John Tayler omnes

John Earnshall ••«. J-bap. January xxxj

Grace Tayler

Ann Wyld

Jarvasse Breariey . .

Elizabeth Buckley .... bap. fifeb

Edmund houlde bap. code die

Marie cheetom bap. ffeb

Jane Scholes lu •. fe^u

Joseph Smith /^*P- ^^^^

Alice Ogden bap. ffeb

Edmund hopwod bap. ffeb

Jane whitehead bap. marti j

Xllj
XXUlj

xxvj
xxvij

• •

Xlj

Ko entries of Burials for 1568.

G. SHAVTr

9$0 Nons AND Glbaniitcni

jjiatttrtas, Itttte 18tl), 1887.

NOTES.

[92.] Holy TaijaxY Chubch, VVatebhead.

(Continued,)

And had we not graddy (we like thU good old
English word; it is one of those which always
carries its own meaning with it) holma and dingles
where trees, and shrubs, and thorns, white and
red., and such thistles and golden gorze s;rew, and
where the birds nestled and sung, and where
crystal streams purled — streams in which the
spangled trout and spotted loach darted like
flashes of lightning ? And had we not squatted in
the quietest of nooks on the infant Medlock the
funniest old mills, round whose hoary wheels the
bright waters trickled, and the bendins; willows
wept, and the mountain ash spread the crimsonest
of berries. Those sloping hill sides, too, on which
the bonniest of blue bells tinkled, and the whim-
berry blossom blushed, and the wild strawberry,
the blackberry, and the sloe outspread their deli-
cate petals, while the happiest of children's voices
were echoed and re-echoed from the breast of
Paulden on one side, and Smith Hill, or the Lows,
with Mount Pisgah on its top, on the other. No
wonder there were " boggarts" in those days, for
these holms and dingles were lonely after dark.
Had we not the Dowry, and the Dingle, and the
Dovecote boggarts? Who was it that durst pass
down that old lane — by which so many of the
natives were carried on the bier to their last
homes in the churchyard of Hey Chapel — after
midnight! — the hour when that dreaded headless
horse soldier made bis appearance. He came out
in full uniform, with drawn sword, and all the
other appurtenances belom^ng to a " bold soldier
boy." Tradition says that the ubiquitous son of
"James the Eighth," Charles Edward Louis Casimer
Stuart, half Pole and full Jacobite, in his
march to the most Jacobite of English towns,
Manchester — which showed the strength of its ism
by giving the scion of the Stuarts " an illumination

Oldham akd KxiaKBonBHooD* 261

and two thousand pounds,' and raisins an army of
two hundred of the scum and ragaraufiinism of the
now city " — slept here. 0/ the Manchester coutin-
cent, we are told ** the Duke of Perth was pro>
voked to declare that if the devil had come recruit-
ing, and offered a shilling more than the Prince,
they would have taken it." Glad this was not said
of the '* Owdham Roughyeds." We do not like to
throw cold water on these old traditions, but,
unfortunately,* Charlie came by Preston, and
"returned back" the same way. Whether the
ghost was one of his runaways, or that of an old
Roman soldier's, who had probably passed this way
on his march to Castleshaw encampment, and come
to grief at the hand of some ancient Britisher, or
not, we shall have to leave for some local and learned
Dryasdust to decide. But our readers will think we
are digressing. Not so, for what is a church but
the parish, and what are stone walls without a
people ?

The chancel has a stuned- glass window of
three lights, each light being divided into two sub-
jects, which represent an episode in the life of
Christ. It is the gift of Edward Mayall, Esq.,
and bears the following inscription: — **This
window was erected by Edward Mayall, Mayor of
Oldham, 1871, in affectionate remembrance of his
mother, Sarah Mayall, who died January 29th,
1842." On the south side are two stained-glass
two-light windows. One was placed there by
tbe congregation in memory of the Rev. Francis
B.^ Broadbent. The inscription is: — *' In loving
remembrance of Francis Buckley Broadbent, 23
years vicar of Holy Trinity Church, Waterhead,
born February 6th, 3811, died January ;L7th, 1878,
and was interred at Saddleworth Church, January
22nd, 1878." The subjects are "The Good Shepherd"
and " The Resurrection and the Life," with the
texts, " As the Father knoweth Me, so know I the
Father," and *' I lay down My life for the sheep,"
and "Now is Christ risen from the dead, and
become the firstfruits of them that slept." The
other is also a two-light window, " To the glory of
God, and to the memory of Rebecca, wife of

253 XoTEi^ AND Uleaxikos.

Abraham Leach, erected A.D. 1880, by her lorviug;
children." Each lip:ht has t«ro sabjecte, taken
from the life of Rebecca, illustrating Genesis-
chap. 24, verses the 33rd and 34th, the 18tb, the
59th, and the 67th. On the north side is another
two-light stained-glass window, "Erected by Emma
Mayall, Jane, 1881, in loving memory of her dear
husband, Edward Mayall, J. If., of Waterhead,
Oldham, who died June 21st, 1880.'' Texts,
" The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken
and a contrite heart, oh Odd, Thou wilt not despise,''
"Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from
Me," ** Surely He hath borne our grief and carried
our sorrows." Artists, the Messrs. Edmundson
and Co., of Manchester, for all the windows except
that to the memory of Mrs. Leach, which was
executed in fine colours by J. B. Capronnier, of
Brussels. A considerable piece of ground has just
been walled off and added to the churchyard, and
subscriptions are being collected to re-asphalte the
walks. The present churchwardens are Abraham
Leach, Esq., J. P., and Mr. John Schofield, with
Messrs. John Fitton, Ambrose Harrop, W. Knott,
and James D. Kershaw as sidesmen. The lay re-
presentatives are W. Schofield and T. W.
Slater, and the clerk, Mr. VV. Buckley. The
superintendents ^f the Sunday schools are : —
Waterhead : The Messrs. Miles Schofield and W.
H. Waddington, I'oys ; Mrs. French, girls. Little-
moor-lane : The Messrs. J. Jagcrer and W. A.
Greaves. Mr. Josiah Holden is the master, and
Mrs. Holden the mistress, of the day schools at
Waterhead ; and Mr. W. Bramley is master, and
Miss M. Landless mistress, of the day schools at
Littlemoor-lane. A library of well-selected books
is in connection with the schools. From the fore-
going notes it will be seen that very considerable
sums of money have been expended on the church
. and its surroundings, and that the demands on the
congregation are frequent and heavy. If the
results in the moral and social elevation of the
people are anything like commensurate, then it will
not be money spent in vain, for all interested will

Oldham avv Kbiorboubhood. 253

feel that they have done some little to help for-
-ward the glory of the ages to come. W, B.

[93]. — Registers of Oldham Church. .
Anno 1589. Chrisnings.

John Brearley bap. martij v

Samnell milnee \u„^ a«.^i;«

Richard Travis .... }^^' ^P"^*» ^^J

Ann mylnes bap. Aprill xvij

Edward ogdenn bap. Aprill xxij

Jane Thorpe ...... |

Ann hopwod j-eode die et anno

Robte. Jacksonn ...J

Joseph hallowes W« •, : •

Thomas Robinson .../^^P- '"^^J J

John wyld filiuslv _^ ^.. ...

Olitiveli /^*P- '"«'*J "J

Nicholas Leeze bap. Juuij xiiij

Jon Barsley bap : ...^

£dmund Scofeld }-bap. Julij v

George Bucley . . . . ^

Sarah Oates bap. Jalij ix

Elizabeth hall \. . ..

Ann Ogdenn j^^^ ^"«"*^*J ^^

Ann Offden bap. Augstj xvij

James Neeld bap. Agust xxj

George Jacksonn bap. scptemb vj

Marie Wyld bap. Septembris xx

Richard cud worth bap. Octobris x

Thomas Cropp

-bap. Octob XXV

John henthorne....
martha Taylier . . .
Joseph Cocker . . .

Mary whitehead bap. Novemb x

Thomas hall bap. Novemb xv

Elizabeth Cheetome ...bap. Decemb vj

marye 1'aylier bap. eodem die

Marie Buckleye. • . • . .bap. Decembris xviij

William Ogdenn bap. Dec xxvj

Sarah Whithead bap. Jaonar xxx

Elizabeth Collier .... bap. ffeb vij

Raffe whithead bap. ffeb xxvj

Grace Breareley bap. eodem die

Alls Schoffeld bap. fifeb xxviij

8^ Kom AMD OuuriKM.

Anno 1588. BariaUa.

Katherin Soholes sep. Jnnij xvj

vxorwillimwhittaker..8ep. Jnnij xziij

John Tayler filina\ t.i^ u-

WiUmTayler / ^^^^ *

William Tailer aep. Jnlj x

Anne Tayler 9^. eodfm die

John Barnes sep. July xzj

margret mathew ...^eep. Jnly xxvj

Anne Goddard sep. septembriB xzij

Xhomas Cttdworth pep. septemb: xxiilj

Annehilton ^sep. octobria xviij

Raffe walker •» sep. oetob . xxvj

Edmund smethorst ..sep. novemb xxiiij

Allioe Backley sep. nov: xxx

A chUd of Edward\^^ !..««•«, ,-

Ryding f"^ January ij

▼xor Eddi Tailer ....sep. Januar v

Alice hodson eep. January xvj

Nicholas whittaker ...sep. January xviij

AchildofJohnTetlow.sep. februar iiij
Thomas winterbot-

home sep. febr xzj

vxor Robti whitakir...sep. febr xxvj

vxor Robti Scholes ...sep. Mardj xiij

vxor Johis Cowp sep. March xv

A child of Ellis hull... sep. ApriU x
A child of Robte Tay-
ler sep. Aprill xuij

Samuell whitaker sep. Aprill xv

Q. Shaw.

j^turtas, Itttte 25tl|, 1887.

NOTES.

[94.] The Late Mrs. KmrvETT, of Hky
CoTTAOE, Shaw, nsah Oldham.

Mr. Henry Gray, bookseller, London, favours
us with the following interesting note taken from

a scrap book of local newspaper cnttiogs in his
possession:—

During a very interesting conversation held be^
tween the late Mrs. Knyrett and two ot her
coneins on the day following the deceased lady's
77th birthday (31st December, 1873), she related
many anecdotes of her younger days. Mention
was made to her that her father and her
family at one time resided at Square,
Walsden, and she said she could remember
the fact, adding that then she would be only
about seven or eight years old, and that their stay
at the place was only for about twelve months, as
they removed back to Shawside. Her father, John
Travis, was the son of John Travis, of Heyside
(** Lower Fowt '*), and was by trade a piece maker.
He lived in the early days of the cotton trade, bad
ten children, many of whom lived to mature, and
some of them to old age, and all more or less musi-
cally inclined. He (Mrs. Knyvett's grandfather)
was at that time organist at Shaw Chapel, near
Oldham, and her father occasionally played the
bassoon (an instrument which was then frequently
used in the services of the church). During her
.youth there was a considerable ambunt of recip-
procity between the choirs of Todmorden and
Shaw Chapel, her uncle Joseph being the organist
at the former place, and her uncle Benjamin
(successor to her grandfather) at the latter
place. In those days Trinity Sunday was
a high day at Shaw, and nearly the
whole ot the Todmorden choir went yearly
to the ''sing" on that day. The compli-
ment was generally returned in kind soon after-
wards. Deborah Travis (the Mrs. Kny vett of later
times) owed much of her early training to these
services and to the care and instruction of her
aunts Deborah and Sarah. When in London,
after having acquired a degree of fame, she
wrote home saying " that she had not forgot
her aunt Deborah's ironed clogs" (referring
to her aunt's habit of beating time for her).
She several times sang at Todmorden and neigh

256 KOTBS AVD GlMAXnVQM,

bouring churches when a girl, and had often re";
lated the incident of going, when about fourteen
years of age, with her aunt (Miss Sarah TraVis) to
a musical festival, at which the famous Mr.
Greatorex ¥ras conductor. At the festival De-
borah's position was between the principal and her
aunt Sarah, immediately behind Mr. Greatorex.
Durina; an interval in the performance Mr. Greatorex
turned round and audibly asked the principal,
** Whose girl is that ?" to which she replied,
^' Why, she is Miss Travis's niece." Then, speak-
ing to her aunt, the conductor said, ''The next
time you come up to London you must bring her
with you." In due course Deborah was taken to
London, and from that visit ultimately resulted her
great success in after life as a vocalist. She was
shortly afterwards bound by indentures to the
late Duke of Cambridge (as president of the
Ancient Concerts Society) for the term of
five years, and ever afterwards she carefully pre-
served her indentures. At the end ot her appren-
ticeship her patrons were so well pleased with the
progress she had made that they geoeronsly offered
to let her remain for another year if she chose, the
better to complete her studies, a privilege of which
she gladly availed herself. Before her nppren-
. ticeship expired she had suiig before royalty
(King George IV.). It began to be cousidered
a great thing to hear her sing in ati oratorio at
Todmorden Chapel (St. Mary's, which was at that
time a chapel of ease to St Chad's, Rochdale). Ou
one of these occasions she was paid £25, but
returned the committee £5 in consideration of the
memory of her uncle Joseph, Moses Dawson, and
others whom she knew. WheYi she sang on one
occasion all the available space in the chapel was
occupied, as much as 7s. 6d. being the price of a
ticket for standing room in the pulpit steps. The
writer mentioned to her the name of a Mr. Varley,
of Ley ton, near Haddersfield, a musician and a
handloom weaver, who had walked all the way to
York in order to be at the festival held in the
Cathedral in 1825, at which he heard her sing
<' What though I trace," adding that the piece so

Oldham and Neiohbourhood. 257

Skfifected him that he shed tears. On that occasion
she received an ^encore from the Archbishop either
by his waving a smbJl flag or handkerchief, or somd
other signal. This incident Mr. Yarley had told ta
his son, the present Mr. Joseph Varley, of Mold-
green, Huddersfield. Upon this circumstance being
named to Mrs, Knyvett at the interview with
her cousins, fihe whblb of the particulars of that
memorable festival seemed to be recalled Vividly t^-
her mind, and she repeated the story in her own
words, adding, ** but 1 heard something at that
time which pleased me far better than the encore.
The Archbishop remairked, in passing to the vestry,
to one of my patrons, * I think our little Ancient
Concert girl will come out,' and on hearing that the
principal treble, Madame Caradora, said to me,
' Well, next to myself, I had rather you had that
encore than anyone else.' " At the above festival
the following was the list of principals : — Madame
Caradora, Miss Travis, Miss Stevens, Miss Farrar,
Miss Wilkinson, and Mademoiselle Garsid ; tenors
— Mr. Vaughan, Mr. Sapio, Mr. Braham ; altos —
Mr. Kynvett, Mr. Ferrail ; basses — Mr. Bellamy^
Mr. Phillips and Signer de Begnis ; chorus — trebles,
90 ; altos, 70 ; tenors, 90 ; bass, 100. Mention was
then made of other celebrated singers, when she
recounted veiy minutely the circumstances of
Madame Malibran's last appearance and death at
Manchester. She stated that the eminent vocalist
had caught a violent cold shortly before the time
for her appearance, and that when the time arrived
she felt herself to be not in a fit state to sing. Mrs.
Kynvett and other friends tried to dissuade her
from appearing, to which Madame Malibran replied,
'* I know what the people will say. If I don't
appear, they will say I am only shamming," and
so she determined to sing. She chose the dress
she would wear (a black silk), and Mrs. Kynvett
added, ** She sang and sang divinely." She died
the next day. The names of some of Mrs. Kynvett's
Yorkshire friends were mentioned, and it was re-
marked that her name had been often brought up.
She manifested a strong recollection of many of them,
and also mentioned names, speaking well of them

258 NoTB8 AND Gleanings.

and of the entertainment she and her aunt had
received from them on varioua oooasions. She
particularly mentioned the late Mr. Parratt,
organiat of Hnddersfield Parish Church, and also
referred to visits to Birkby and other places. At
the age of seventy-seven she seemed young onee
again, although blind, and her delight was to recount
old ways and scenes and incidents. She was very-
hearty and cheerful, althou({h she had been totally
blind for several years.

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